NATIONAL AND STATE POWERS

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NATIONAL AND STATE POWERS
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NATIONAL POWERS

• 10th Amendment- Establishes National powers
• The powers not delegated to the United States by
  the Constitution, nor prohibited to the States
  respectively, or to the people.

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Expressed or Enumerated Powers

• Clearly written powers in the Constitution
• Coining Money
• Regulating Interstate Commerce
• Levying and Collecting Taxes
• Declaring War
• Establishing Post Offices
• Making Treaties
• Appointing Federal Office Holders
• Granting Pardons

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IMPLIED POWERS

• Not written in the Constitution, but suggested.
• Article I Sec 8 (Legislature)
• 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

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Necessary and Proper

• Otherwise known as the elastic clause
• Gives Congress all the powers that are not
  expressly stated in the Constitution
• Making the Constitution, flexible.

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Inherent Powers

• Inherent Means Naturally Occurring
• Make treaties
• Regulate immigration
• Claim territory
• Wage war
• Create Peace

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Prohibited Powers

• Powers give expressly to the states
• The Bill of Rights

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RESERVED POWERS

• Powers reserved for the states
• Regulate Intrastate Commerce
• Conduct Elections
• Provide for Health, safety, morality
• Establish local GOVs
• Ratify amendments to Constitution
• Establish state militias

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CONCURRENT POWERS

• Powers shared by both Federal and State
• Levy and collect taxes
• Borrow money
• Make and enforce laws
• Establish courts
• General welfare
• banks

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Powers Denied

• To both Federal and State GOVs
• Titles of Nobility
• Permit slavery
• Deny citizens the right to vote