POWERS OF CONGRESS

POWERS OF CONGRESS

18 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

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Clause 1
To collect taxes to pay the debts and provide for the common defense
Clause 2
To borrow money on the credit of the united states
Clause 3
To regulate commerce
Clause 4
To decide how people may become citizens of the us (uniform rule of naturalization) and to make laws on the subject of bankruptcies
Clause 5
To coin money and fix the standard of weights and measures
Clause 6
To provide punishment for counterfeiting money
Clause 7
To establish post offices and roads
Clause 8
To provide copyrights and patenets (promote progress of science and arts)
Clause 9
To create the lower federal courts
Clause 10
To define and punish foreign crimes (like piracies on the high seas)
Clause 11
To declare war
Clause 12
To raise and support armies
Clause 13
To provide and maintain a navy
Clause 14
To make rules for the land and naval forces
Clause 15
To provide the calling forth of the militia