enumerated powers of congress

AP gov

lay and collect taxes

borrow money

regulate commerce

coin money

to define nationality and bankruptcy

punish people counter fitting money

establish post offices and roads

promote science and writing by making intellectual property rules

hold court inferior to the supreme

define and punish pirates in the seas

declare war

raise and support armies

provide and maintain a navy

make rules for regulation of the armed forces

to call the militia

organizing, arming and disciplining the militia

executive legislation in DC, forts or recent land purchases

make laws that are necessary and proper

declare treason punishment

admit new states into the union

can chose the president if both them and the vice are deemed unqualified