1. Chapter 5 - Section 3

2. Essential Question
How did the Constitution empower/limit Congress?

3. Financing the Government
Pay for government programs and defense
Raise and collect taxes

4. American Trade and Business
Regulate trade with foreign countries and among the states
Pass laws that protect the rights of investors

5. Defending the Country
Power to declare war and maintain armed forces

6. Creating Lower Courts Power to pass laws
Set up a system of national courts to enforce them

7. Providing for Growth Regulate immigration and naturalization
Govern the country’s territories
Admit new states

8. Implied Powers Powers not specifically listed in the Constitution
Established through the “necessary and proper clause”
Stretch delegated powers to cover many areas
Sometimes called the “elastic clause”

9. Impeachment To accuse an officeholder of misconduct Treason
An act that betrays or endangers one’s country

10. Impeachment Process Charges draw up in the House
Majority vote = impeachment
Put on trial
Senate is the court
Presided over by the vice president
2/3 guilty = removed from office

11. Impeached
Only two Presidents
Andrew Johnson
Bill Clinton

12. Special Powers - House Start all revenue raising bills
Impeach public officials
Choose President if no one receives a majority

13. Special Powers - Senate
Holds all impeachment trials
Choose vice president if there is no majority
Approves treaties by 2/3 vote
Approves high officials

14. Limits to Power
Ex Post facto Laws - laws that apply to things in the past
Bills of Attainder - Sentencing people without trial
Remove the writ of Habeas Corpus - right to a court order determining if there is enough evidence to go to trial

15. More Limits Tax Exports Violate the Bill of Rights
Favor one state over another
Grant titles of nobility
Spend money without a law