AP GOV & POLITICS SUMMER WORK

FLASHCARDS FOR THE CONSTITUTION SCAVENGER HUNT AND THE POLITICIANS QUIZ

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 1

Congress has the power to lay and collect taxes,duties, imposts and excises, to pay 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.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 2

Congress has the power to borrow money on the credit of the United States.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 3

Congress has the power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with Indian tribes.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 4

Congress has the power to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 5

Congress has the power to coin money, regulate the value of thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 6

Congress has the power to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 7

Congress has the power to establish post offices and post roads.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 8

Congress has the 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.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 9

Congress has the power to constitute tribunes inferior to the Supreme Court.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 10

Congress has the power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of Nations.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 11

Congress has the power to declare war, grant letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make rules covering Captures on land and water.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 12

Congress has the power to raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that use shall be for a longer term of two years.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 13

Congress has the power to provide and maintain a Navy

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 14

Congress has the power to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 15

Congress has the power to provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 16

Congress has the power to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such part of them as many 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.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 17

Congress has the power to exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district ( not exceeding 10 miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of congress, become the seat of Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all places purchased by the consent of the Legislation of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of ports, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, and other needful buildings.

Article 1 Section 8 Clause 18

Congress has the power to make laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the forgoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States or in any Department or Officer thereof.