Congress and their powers/ Scenario Objectives

Congress and their Powers

The constitution provides for three basic types of powers to the Federal Government, to wit the Congress and the executive: the delegated powers, also called express powers or powers enumerated and implied powers concurrent powers. Finally concurrent powers are those that can be exercised both by the central government and by states (Fisher, 1972).

Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution enumerates a long list of delegated powers (Delegated powers) to Congress. In domestic policy the most important being the tax capacity and authority to regulate interstate commerce. The tax capacity has been ...