Constitutional Powers

Constitutional Powers
Powers of Congress (14)
1. House of Representatives has the Sole power of Impeachment of the speaker of the house and other Officers. The Senate has the sole power to try all impeachments.
2. The Congress has power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
3. Power to borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
4. Power to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
5. Power to establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
6. Power to coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
7. Power to provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current coin of the United States;
8. Power to establish Post Offices and post Roads;
9. Power to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
10. Power to constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
11. Power to define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
12. Power to declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
13. Power to raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
14. Power to provide and maintain a Navy;
15. Power to make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
16. Power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
17. Power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
18. Power to exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;
19. Power to make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
Presidential powers (6)
1. The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States; he may require the Opinion, in writing, of the principal Officer in each of the executive Departments, upon any Subject relating to the Duties of their respective Offices
2. He shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.
3. He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur;
4. he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice

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