Legislative powers

Question 1

Expressed Powers

Answer 1

Power spelled out in the constitution

Question 2

Inherent powers

Answer 2

Powers of government is presumed to get

Question 3

Implied powers

Answer 3

Powers suggested by expressed

Question 4

Strict construction

Answer 4

Believe Congress can only use its expressed powers (state power, small gov)

Question 5

Liberal constructionists

Answer 5

Large national government, less state control

Question 6

Consensus

Answer 6

General agreement

Question 7

What are the two rules about congress is taxing power?

Answer 7

1. text only for public purposes

2. can’t tax exports

Question 8

Indirect taxes

Answer 8

First paid by one person then passed to another (gas)

Question 9

Direct taxes

Answer 9

Pay directly to the government

Question 10

Borrowing power

Answer 10

Congress can borrow money

Question 11

Public that

Answer 11

All the money we haven’t paid back

Question 12

Beficit financing

Answer 12

Spending more money than you make than borrowing to make up the difference

Question 13

Commerce power

Answer 13

Congress regulate trade between states and foreign nations

Question 14

Currency powers

Answer 14

Congress makes money and regulates it

Question 15

Foreign relations power

Answer 15

Regulate foreign Commerce

Question 16

Bankruptcy

Answer 16

Legal proceeding in which the bankruptcy assets are distributed among whom debt owned

Question 17

War powers

Answer 17

President runs it Congress declares it/restrict it

Question 18

Naturalization

Answer 18

Process where one citizen from a country becomes a citizen of another

Question 19

Postal powers

Answer 19

Congress can establish post offices and post roads

Question 20

Copyright

Answer 20

Exclusive right for someone to sell/reproduce his work

Question 21

Patent

Answer 21

Give someone the right to manufacture and improve his work (invention)

Question 22

Weights and measures

Answer 22

Congress sets weights and measures

Question 23

Eminent domain

Answer 23

Doesn’t make him buy or purchase property – government can take it for public use

Question 24

Necessary and proper clause(elastic clause)

Answer 24

Congress can stretch the rules