Congress Or Parliament

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What is the difference between congress and parliament.

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congress- (a coming together) people become candidates for senate or representative in the U.S. Congress by running in a primary election.Members of U.S. Congress do not select the head of the executive branch of government.
parliament- (parle- to talk) a person becomes a member of parliament by pursuading a political party of putting his or her name on the ballot

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What are the powers of congress.

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- to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises
- to borrow money
- to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the states
- to establish rules for naturalization and bankruptcy
- to coin money, set its value, and punish counterfeiting
- to fix the standard of weights and measures
- to establish a post office and post roads
- to issue patents and copyrights by inventors and authors
- to create courts inferior to the Supreme Court
- To define and punish piracies, felonies on the high seas, and crimes against the law of nations
- to declare war
- to raise and support an army and navy and make rules for their governence
- to provide for a militia
- to exercise exclusive legislative powers over the seat of government and other places purchased to be federal facilities
- to "make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitutionin this government of the United States"