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Congress and its powers are laid out in Article I. It begins this way: “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States….” From this opening line, how much legislative power is held by the president and the Supreme Court?
- The Supremacy Clause in Article VI gives legislative authority to all three branches of government.
- None.
- There are implied powers in Article I, section 8 from which presidential and judicial legislative authority is derived.
- The Bill of Rights have penumbra, formed by emanations, that help give it life and substance.
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In Article I, section 8 Congress is given power to provide for the common defense and the “general welfare.” What is “general welfare”?
- It is an 18th century term for Universal Basic Income.
- It implies that Congress can give money from the treasury to private citizens so long as it treats citizens of all states equally.
- James Madison insisted that “general welfare” can only mean that Congress has authority to spend money only for executing the powers delegated in Article I, section 8. If it doesn’t mean only this, Madison argued, then the 10th Amendment becomes meaningless.
- Alexander Hamilton called this the “spending power clause” and insisted that it confers on Congress authority to spend money on anything its members think would be good for the country.
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Toward the end of Article I, Section 8 we read: “To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers,…” This is the much abused “necessary and proper” clause that supposedly holds within it a trunk full of implied powers just waiting for justices of the Supreme Court to pick through the treasures. Does this clause conceal powers not delegated but implied?
- Yes, since, according to Alexander Hamilton, the word “necessary” actually has the meaning “convenient,” and this implies a broad range of congressional powers.
- No, because, according to James Madison, there can be no powers of Congress but those expressly delegated, as the 10th Amendment makes clear. Thus powers are necessary and proper when they are logically required for executing delegated congressional powers. If the Constitution delegates power to establish a post office, which it does, then it includes the power to hire people to run it, but not power to build an interstate highway system for transporting mail.
- Yes, after all, the Supreme Court has said there are implied powers in the necessary and proper clause.
- No. This issue was debated in the ratification conventions in each state in 1788/89 and assurances were firm that the Constitution contains no implied powers. Thus to assert implied powers after ratification is a violation of the compact grounded in dishonesty.
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Under the Constitution as it was ratified in 1788, senators were chosen by the legislatures of the states. Why?
- So that state politicians could vote for federal officers.
- The state governments feared that regular Americans were not qualified to vote for federal officers with the kind of power held by senators.
- To establish for the state legislatures an absolute check on the actions of Congress since senators hold their seats at the pleasure of their state legislatures.
- It made no sense to have representatives elected by the people, and then have senators also elected by the people. This is redundant.
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