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# Powers Delegated to Congress 1. **Taxes:** (The power to tax and spend tax money.) 2. **Borrowing:** (Borrow money for the U.S.) 3. **Commerce:** (Regulate foreign and domestic trade.) 4. **Naturalization, Bankruptcy:** (Citizenship, Bankruptcies) 5. **Coins, Weights, and Measures:** (Coin money...

# Powers Delegated to Congress 1. **Taxes:** (The power to tax and spend tax money.) 2. **Borrowing:** (Borrow money for the U.S.) 3. **Commerce:** (Regulate foreign and domestic trade.) 4. **Naturalization, Bankruptcy:** (Citizenship, Bankruptcies) 5. **Coins, Weights, and Measures:** (Coin money and establish its value.) 6. **Counterfeiting:** (Establish punishment for counterfeiting.) 7. **Post Offices:** (Control mail system) 8. **Copyrights, Patents:** (Protection for authors and inventors.) 9. **Federal Courts:** (Set up inferior courts to the Supreme Court.) 10. **Piracy:** (Power to punish piracy) 11. **Declarations of War:** (At the request of the President.) 12. **Army:** (Raise and support. Appropriate money) 13. **Navy:** (Provide and maintain) 14. **Rules of Military** 15. **Militia:** (National Guard - citizen soldiers) 16. **Rules for the Militia** 17. **National Capital:** (Congress controls Washington D.C. In 1973 power was given to citizens to elect local government officials.) 18. **Necessary Laws:** (Power to make laws concerning items 1-17. Referred to as the "elastic clause")