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Powers & Clauses
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- 1Enumerated Powers (aka "Expressed Powers")Congress may exercise the powers that the Constitution gives it, subject to the individual rights listed in the Bill of Rights.
- 2Implied PowersPowers that the Congress has that are not stated explicitly in the Constitution.
- 3Inherent PowersPowers that Congress and the president need in order to get things done.
- 4Reserved PowersPowers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states.
- 5Concurrent PowersPowers shared by the state and federal government.
- 6Commerce ClauseGives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.”
- 7Necessary & Proper Clause (aka "Elastic Clause")Powers not explicitly named in the Constitution but assumed to exist due to their being necessary to implement the expressed powers.
- 8Full Faith & Credit Clause (Article 4)Addresses the duties that states within the United States have to respect the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other state.
- 9Supremacy Clause (Article 6)Establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions.
- 10Free Exercise Clause (1st Amendment)Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
- 11Establishment Clause (1st Amendment)A limitation placed upon the United States Congress preventing it from passing legislation respecting an establishment of religion.
- 12Due Process Clause (5th & 14th Amendment)Restricts the federal government. It states that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”
- 13Selective CorporationA case by case process by which the liberties of the Bill of Rights are applied to the state governments by the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment.
- 14Equal Protection Clause (14th Amendment)No state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws".
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