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Powers
S1: Commerce Powers
S2: Expressed Powers
S3: Implied Powers
S4: Nonlegislative Powers
100
Powers of Congress that do not directly deal with the law making process, such as confirming Presidential appointments to the Supreme Court.
What are the Non-Legislative Powers?
100
A charge by government on persons or property to meet public need.
What is a Tax?
100
These Powers are the Expressed Powers that deal with the Raising of an Army and Navy, hiring Pirates to fight Foreign Powers, make rules for the Military, etc.
What are the War Powers?
100
A person who wants Congress to only use the Powers Written in the Constitution.
What is a Strict Constructionist?
100

Word for lying under oath.

What is Perjury?

200
Specific powers of the National Government that are found in the constitution.
What are the Expressed Powers?
200
This is the Supreme court case where two steamboat operators fought over the right to have a State chartered interstate steamboat route. The Supreme Courts ruling in the case led to the understanding that the National Government where the only government to regulate interstate commerce.
What is "Ogden v. Gibbons?"
200

The process by which a citizen of one country becomes a citizen of another country.

What is Naturalization?

200
A person who believes government should be able to create new power when needed
What is a Liberal Constructionist?
200
This is the act by congress to bring formal charges against a public official.
What is to Impeach?
300
The powers of the National Government that are suggested by the "Necessary and Proper Clause" when carrying out the other Expressed Powers.
What are the Implied Powers?
300
The act of spending more money than is taken to run a government.
What is Deficit Financing?
300

This action is taken by the National Government when private property is taken for public used and the owner is paid fair market value for that property.

What is Eminent Domain?

300

Under this Expressed Power Congress is allowed to create a Draft to force people into Military Service in times of war.

What is the power to Raise a Military?

300

When there is no clear victor in a Presidential Election this house of Congress Elects the President.

What is House of Representatives?

400
The exclusive power of Congress to regulate trade between states and foreign countries as stated in the Expressed Powers of the Constitution.
What are the Commerce Powers?
400
The legal procedure taken when an individual is owing money to multiple debtors and the National Government steps in to aid the person owing take charge of their situation and pay off their debts.
What is Bankruptcy?
400
This clause, the last of the Expressed Powers, and also known as the "Elastic Clause" is what allows the creation of Implied Powers.
What is the "Necessary and Proper Clause?"
400

Because of this important Supreme Court case was it decided that Congress had the right to create new powers under the "Necessary and Proper Clause."

What is "McCulloch v. Maryland?"

400
This is the act by congress issuing a formal disapproval of the actions of a public official.
What is a Censure?
500
The powers the Constitution is presumed to have given to the national government because it is the government of a sovereign state within the world community.
What are the Inherent Powers?
500

These are Congress' four limits on taxing.

What are (1) only taxing for public need/good, (2) not taxing exports, (3) direct taxes apportioned between states based on population, and (4) indirect taxes must be levied at a uniform rate throughout the country?

500

This is the exclusive right of a person or company to reproduce, publish and sell a creative work. It lasts for the life of the artist plus 70 years.

What is a Copyright?

500

Three ways Congress has involved itself in schools.

What are the Civil Rights Act (1964), Title IX (1972), and IDEA (1990)?

500

In 1972, this political scandal caused former US President Richard Nixon to resign before he faced impeachment and probable conviction.

What is Watergate?