The Legislative branch's powers as prescribed in article one of the US constitution are as follows. Congress has such domestic powers as taxation, borrowing money on credit, regulating trade both foreign and domestic, coining money, establishing post offices and post roads, and constituting tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court. Congress was also given such military powers as raising and supporting an Army, providing and maintaining a Navy, drafting rules for the government regulation of land and sea forces, the power to call on the militia to execute laws, and (most importantly within regards to the military) declaring war. Congress was also enumerated with the power to approve the purchase of land by the Union (a right that went unexpressed
