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