Congressional

Power
Expressed: Money Powers

 Lay and Collect Taxes

Expressed: Money Powers

 Borrow Money
Expressed Powers: Money
Powers
 Establish Bankruptcy Laws
Expressed Powers:

 Coin, Print, and Regulate Money

Expressed Powers: Money
Powers
 Punish Counterfeiters
Expressed Powers: Commerce
Powers
 Regulate foreign and interstate commerce
Expressed Powers: Military
and Foreign Powers
 Declare War
Expressed Powers: Military
and Foreign Powers
 Raise, support, and regulate an army and navy
Expressed Powers: Military
and Foreign Powers
 Provide, regulate, and call into service a Militia or
National Guard
Expressed Powers: Military
and Foreign Powers
 Punish acts committed on international waters
Expressed: Other Powers

 Establish laws of naturalization

Expressed: Other Powers

 Establish post offices and post roads

Expressed: Other Powers

 Grant copyrights and patents

Expressed: Other Powers

 Create lower federal courts

Expressed: Other Powers

 Govern Washington D.C.

Expressed: Other Powers

 Provide for laws necessary and proper for carrying out

all other listed powers
Implied Powers: Money

 Support Public Schools, Welfare Programs, Public

Housing, etc..
Implied Powers: Commerce

 Prohibit discrimination in restaurants, hotels, and other

public accommodations
Implied Powers: Military and
Foreign Powers
 Draft
Implied Powers:
Naturalization
 Power to limit the number of immigrants to the United
States
Denied Powers: Suspending
the Writ of Habeas Corpus
 The right of a person accused of a crime to be taken to
court to determine whether he or she has been legally
detained.
Denied Powers: Bills of
Attainder
 Laws that establish guilt and punish people without
allowing them a trial.
Denied Powers: Ex Post Facto
Laws
 Laws that make crimes of acts that were legal when
they were committed.
Non-Legislative Powers

 The Power to Choose a President

 Congress counts that Electoral College
Non-Legislative Power

 Removal Power
 Impeachment
 A format accusation of misconduct in office
Non-Legislative Powers

 Confirmation Power
 Power to approve presidential appointments
 Military Officials, Cabinet Positions, Supreme Court Nominees
Non-Legislative Powers

 Ratification Power
 Ratifies treaties between the United States and other
nations
Non-Legislative Power

 Amendment Power
 Shared with state legislatures, Congress can propose
amendments