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11. Powers of Congress.. The Scope of Congressional Powers.

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1 11. Powers of Congress.

2 The Scope of Congressional Powers.

3 The Expressed Powers of Money and Commerce.

4 Other Expressed Powers.

5 The Implied Powers.

6 The Nonlegislative Powers.

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8 explicitly, in its specific wording (Constitution)

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10 by reasonable deduction from the expressed powers

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12 creating a national government for the United States

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14 led by Thomas Jefferson, Congress should be able to exercise only 1)its expressed powers 2)the implied powers absolutely necessary to carry out those expressed powers

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16 led by Alexander Hamilton, led the fight to adopt the Constitution a broad construction of the powers given to Congress

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18 general agreement

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20 Charge levied by government on persons or property to raise money to meet public needs

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22 one that must be paid directly to the government by the person whom it is imposed (Ex: tax on the land)

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24 one first paid by one person but then passed on to another

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26 government spends more than it takes in each year

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28 all of the money borrowed by the federal government over the years and not yet repaid, plus the accumulated interest on that money

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30 power of Congress to regulate interstate and foreign trade

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32 any kind of money that a creditor must by law accept in payment for debts

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34 legal proceeding in which the bankrupt’s assets are distributed among those to whom a debt is owed

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36 the process by which citizens of one country become citizens of another

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38 exclusive right of another to reproduce, publish, and sell his or her creative work

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40 grants a person the sole right to manufacture, use, or sell “any new and useful art, machine

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42 the inherent power to take private property for public use

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44 assigns to a particular use Ex: public education

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46 “To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Exemption the foregoing Powers and all other Powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof”

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48 principle or fundamental policy

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50 a replacement, someone to fill the vacancy, subject to a majority vote in both houses of Congress

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52 to accuse, bring charges

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54 found then not guilty

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56 lying under oath

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58 legal order directing one to appear in court and/or to produce certain evidence

59 Notes from the First Congress.

60 Voices on Government.

61 Liberal or Strict?

62 Commerce Clause.

63 Federal Spending of Tax Dollars, 1986-2006.

64 Interpreting Political Cartoons.

65 The Clermont.

66 Commerce Clause.

67 The Development of a National Currency.

68 Rise in Bankruptcies, 1992-2004.

69 Peacetime Powers of Congress.

70 Congressional Powers.

71 Types of Intellectual Property.

72 Federal Land in the Western United States.

73 Federalist or Anti-Federalist.

74 1956 Interstate and National Defense Highway Act.

75 The Implied Powers of Congress.

76 Suffragettes.

77 Impeach.

78 The Impeachment Process.

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80 A Final Farewell.

81 Testify.

82 Analyzing Political Cartoons.


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