Gov - Chapter 11
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- Gives Congress the power to tax
- Taxing power
- Gives Congress power to borrow money based on credit of the US
- Borrowing power
- Not enough $ to pay debts
- Bankruptcy
- Congress has power to coin mney
- Currency power
- Determined by Congress - what can be used for money/accepted for a debt
- legal tender
- Congress has control over foreign and interstate trade - Gibbons v. Ogden case questioned this
- Commerce Power/Commerce Clause
- Shared powers
- Concurrent powers
- Congress makes laws relating to DC and US territories
- Territorial Power
- Declaring private land for public use
- Imminent domain
- Exclusive power of Congress - power over all interactions w/ foreign countries
- Foreign relations power
- Congress can create lower courts
- Judicial power
- Power of Congress to naturalize citizens
- Naturalization process
- Promise to pay a debt, under Borrowing Power
- promisary note
- Clauses 11-16, war powers
- Power to declare war, raise an army, maintain a navy
- Congress makes all laws relating to time, distance, area, weight and volume
- Weights and measures
- Powers interpreted from Constitution - Article 1, Section 8, Clause 18 - "necessary and proper" or "elastic clause"
- implied powers
- When Congress proposes amendments
- constituent power
- Power of the House to select a President if the electoral college doesn't reach a majority
- electoral power
- Senate approves all major presidential appointments - called "advise and consent" - also applies to treaties
- executive power
- President is supposed to ask Senators about State legi recommendations
- Senatorial courtesy
- Process of accusing a gov official of a wrongdoing
- Impeachment
- Power to investigate a proposed bill
- Investigative power