The Powers, Enumerated unto the Federal Government
Here are The Powers, enumerated unto the Federal Government.
Depends on how you divide some of them, how many you get. Some
people get 18. I get 22. (This list is taken from Wickipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers.)
Article 1 Section 8 of the Constitution lists the powers as:
- Section 8: The Congress shall have power
1. To collect taxes, etc.
- To
lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and
provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United
States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout
the United States;
2. To borrow money.
- To
borrow money on the credit of the United States;
3. To regulate commerce that is not intrastate.
- To
regulate
commerce with foreign nations, and
among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
4. To establish rules of naturalization.
- To establish a
uniform rule of naturalization,
5. To establish laws regarding bankruptcies.
- and uniform laws on the subject of
bankruptcies throughout the United States;
6. To coin money.
- To
coin
money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin,
7. To fix standards of weights and measures.
- and fix the
standard of weights and measures;
8. To punish counterfeiters.
- To provide for the punishment of
counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United
States;
9. To establish post offices, and post roads. (This
could be two separate points.)
- To establish
post offices and
post
roads;
10. To protect through copyright and patent laws, the
inventions and creative property of citizens.
- To
promote the
progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to
authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings
and discoveries;
11. To create lower federal courts.
- To constitute
tribunals inferior to the
Supreme Court;
12. To punish piracy on the high seas.
- To define and punish
piracies and
felonies
committed on the
high
seas, and offenses against the
law
of nations;
13. To declare war.
- To
declare
war,
14. To grant letters of marque and reprisal (in lieu of war).
- grant
letters of
marque and reprisal,
15. To make rules concerning captures on land and water.
- and make
rules concerning
captures on land and water;
16. To raise and support an Army, up to two years. (NO
STANDING ARMY!)
- To raise and support
armies
, but no
appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than
two years;
17. To provide and maintain a standing Navy (and by
extrapolation, we may concede an Air Force and a Space Force).
To provide and maintain a
navy
;
18. To make the rules for all military forces.
- To make rules for the government and
regulation of the land and naval forces;
19. To call forth the militia, and provide for it.
- To provide for calling forth
the militia to
execute the
laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
- To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia,
and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of
the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment
of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to
the discipline prescribed by Congress;
20. To govern the District of Columbia.
- To exercise
exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such
District
(not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular
states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government
of the United States,
21. To maintain forts, arsenals, dockyards, etc., for military
purposes.
- and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the
consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for
the erection of
forts,
magazines,
arsenals,
dockyards, and
other needful buildings;And
22. To enact all laws necessary to do all the above. And
nothing else. (See 9th and 10th Articles of the Bill of Rights.)
- To make all laws which shall be
necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing
powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the
government of the United States, or in any department or officer
thereof.
If your congressman (representative or senator) votes for anything
else, anything not on this list, then he/she is derelict of duty, and is
disobedient, not only to you, but to his/her oath of allegiance to
support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and it's time
to bring them home. ONE VOTE for anything not on this list, and
they're fired!!!
The Founders could not overemphasize this. They said it twice in
the Bill of Rights.
9th Article, Bill of Rights:
The enumeration in
the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or
disparage others retained by the people.
10th Article, Bill of Rights:
"
The powers not
delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it
to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the
people."
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