American Government quick vocab review

Enumerated powers

Levy & collect taxes; Borrow & coin money; regulate interstate commerce
Nat’l security: raise army & navy; declare war

Implied powers

Tax & spend to “provide for the ... general Welfare of the US”
“To make all Laws which shall be necessary & proper for carrying [out] foregoing [enumerated] Powers

Concurrent Powers

Overlap in powers of national & state governments (e.g., both can tax & borrow money)
– Source of tension between national & state governments

State Powers

10th Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the US by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the
states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”
– “Police powers”: power of states to pass laws for the health, safety, & morals of their residents

“Police powers”

power of states to pass laws for the health, safety, & morals of their residents

Theory: Dual Federalism

Clear bright line between national power & state powers
– Federal & state governments are sovereign w/ separate & distinct responsibilities