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Flashcards by celandreth, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by celandreth
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| Question | Answer |
| Enumerated 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. |
| Implied Powers | Powers that the Congress has that are not stated explicitly in the Constitution. |
| Inherent Powers | Powers that Congress and the president need in order to get things done. |
| Reserved Powers | Powers that the Constitution does not give to the national government that are kept by the states. |
| Concurrent Powers | Powers shared by the state and federal government. |
| Commerce Clause | Gives Congress the power “to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.” |
| Necessary & 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. |
| Full 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. |
| Supremacy Clause (Article 6) | Establishes that the federal constitution, and federal law generally, take precedence over state laws, and even state constitutions. |
| Free Exercise Clause (1st Amendment) | Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. |
| Establishment Clause (1st Amendment) | A limitation placed upon the United States Congress preventing it from passing legislation respecting an establishment of religion. |
| Due 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.” |
| Selective Corporation | A 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. |
| Equal Protection Clause (14th Amendment) | No state shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction "the equal protection of the laws". |
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