Article 1.8910 Flashcards
Elastic cause
Article 1 section 8 number 18
Congress has power to make laws to carry out duties of branch
Six powers granted to congress
Lay and collect taxes Borrow on credit Regulate commerce with foreign nations Punish counterfeiters of money Establish post offices and post roads Crest inferior tribunals to Supreme Court
6 powers denied to congress
Writ of habeus corpus not suspended
No bill of attainder or expostfacto
No tax on articles exported from any state
No title of nobility
No money drawn from treasury
No importation of slaves before 1808 but there can be tax
Powers denied to stars
Making treaties Coining money Ex post facto laws Impairing contracts Duties on imports and exports Tonnage duties, keeping troops and compacts, wage was
McCullough vs MD 1819
Maryland wanted to impose tax on all bank notes not chartered to MD
Supreme court ruled congress had elastic clause to use power to create second bank and md had no power to tax
Writ of habeus corpus
Judicial mandate ordering prison official to bring inmate to court to decide whether he is imprisoned lawfully
Bill of attainder
Imprisoned without trial
Ex post facto
Passing a law after the fact and applying to something that happened before law
