Question | Answer |
Enumerated Powers aka Expressed Powers | specific responsibilities granted to the U.S. Congress by the U.S. Constitution |
Implied Powers | a power that is reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of a power expressly granted |
Inherent Powers | powers that Congress and the president need in order to get the job done right |
Concurrent powers | powers in nations with a federal system of government that are shared by the federal government and political unit |
Commerce Clause | gives Congress the power " to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes" |
Necessary and proper clause aka elastic clause | the Constitution gives Congress the power "to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper" to carry out its duties. |
Reserved powers | powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states |
full faith and credit clause | addresses the duties that states within the U.S. have to respect the "public arts and records" |
supremacy clause | the Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government "shall be the supreme Law of the Land. " |
Due Process Clause | no person shall be " deprived of life, liberty, or property without process of law" |
Free exercise clause | Congress makes no law respecting an establishment of religion |
establishment clause | limitation placed upon the U.S. Congress preventing it from passing legislation. |
selective corporation | a case by case by which the liberties of the Bill of Rights are applied to the state govts. by the due process clause of the 14th amendment |
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