The enumerated powers (also called expressed powers, explicit powers or delegated powers) of the United States Congress are the powers granted to the federal...

legislative body of the United States. Some powers are explicitly defined by the Constitution and are called enumerated powers; others have been assumed...

(Amendment IX) to the United States Constitution addresses rights, retained by the people, that are not specifically enumerated in the Constitution. It...

vesting of authority, even though they are neither enumerated nor implied. The theory of inherent powers of the President derives from the loosely worded...

the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment. The enumerated powers that are listed in the Constitution include exclusive federal powers, as...

reinforce the notion of the Federal Government maintaining only limited, enumerated powers. Some legal scholars (including textualists and originalists) have...

One grants Congress various enumerated powers and the ability to pass laws "necessary and proper" to carry out those powers. Article One also establishes...

Court has ruled that this clause grants implied powers to US Congress in addition to its enumerated powers. According to the Articles of Confederation, "each...

(forbidden to be possessed by the states, or requiring federal permission). In many federations, enumerated federal powers are supreme and so, they may pre-empt...

Constitution of Australia enumerates the legislative powers granted to the Parliament of Australia by the Australian States at Federation. Each subsection...

powers enumerated in Article I of the U.S. Constitution, but also a broad authority to tax and spend for the "general welfare" of the United States....

some powers to the states. The Tenth Amendment reserves all other powers to the states, or to the people. Powers of the U.S. Congress are enumerated in...

which enumerated individual rights and another twenty of which enumerated states' rights. The latter amendments included limitations on federal powers to...

within the limits of such enumeration, it has all the attributes of sovereignty, and, in the exercise of those enumerated powers, acts directly upon the...

case, United States v. Morrison, and under other enumerated powers in a 2001 case, Solid Waste Agency of Northern Cook County v. United States Army Corps...

to U.S. law, reserved powers (i.e. states' rights) belong exclusively to each state. They are distinct from the enumerated powers that are listed in the...

U.S. federal government certain implied powers necessary and proper for the exercise of the powers enumerated explicitly in the Constitution, and secondly...

Safety Act, was upheld against a challenge that it fell outside the enumerated powers granted to Congress by the Constitution. The decision did not rule...

federation of 36 states, each of which is a semi-autonomous political unit that shares powers with the federal government as enumerated under the Constitution...

States Supreme Court concerning the foreign affairs powers of the president of the United States. It held that the President, as the nation's "sole organ"...

emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces". The War Powers Resolution requires the president...

well as other enumerated areas. Article Three also defines treason. Section 1 of Article Three vests the judicial power of the United States in "one supreme...

signature). The powers of Congress are limited to those enumerated in the Constitution; all other powers are reserved to the states and the people. The...

society. The United States Constitution grants extensive national security powers to both Congress and the President of the United States. Article I grants...

McCray v. United States (1904), Flint v. Stone Tracy & Co. (1911), and Printz v. United States (1997). Other federal powers specifically enumerated by Section...

Section 1 clarifies that in the enumerated situations the vice president becomes president, instead of merely assuming the powers and duties of the presidency...

the thirteen united States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. On July 4...

Whenever the United States Coast Guard operates as a service within the Department of the Navy, the secretary of the Navy has the same powers and duties...

to enumerate a list of agencies. The executive branch of the federal government includes the Executive Office of the President and the United States federal...

Article 11. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively...