Flashcards
Powers and Clauses
Flashcards do conjunto (13)
- 1Enumerated Powers aka Expressed Powersspecific responsibilities granted to the U.S. Congress by the U.S. Constitution
- 2Implied Powersa power that is reasonably necessary to carry out the purposes of a power expressly granted
- 3Inherent Powerspowers that Congress and the president need in order to get the job done right
- 4Concurrent powerspowers in nations with a federal system of government that are shared by the federal government and political unit
- 5Commerce Clausegives Congress the power " to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes"
- 6Necessary and proper clause aka elastic clausethe Constitution gives Congress the power "to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper" to carry out its duties.
- 7Reserved powerspowers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states
- 8full faith and credit clauseaddresses the duties that states within the U.S. have to respect the "public arts and records"
- 9supremacy clausethe Constitution and other laws and treaties made by the national government "shall be the supreme Law of the Land. "
- 10Due Process Clauseno person shall be " deprived of life, liberty, or property without process of law"
- 11Free exercise clauseCongress makes no law respecting an establishment of religion
- 12establishment clauselimitation placed upon the U.S. Congress preventing it from passing legislation.
- 13selective corporationa case by case by which the liberties of the Bill of Rights are applied to the state govts. by the due process clause of the 14th amendment
