1. Powers of Congress – Day 2
Identify key powers exercised by Congress.

2. Bell Work 2
Time Table
Bell Work – 10 min.
Lecture Notes – 25 min.
Political Cartoon – 5 min.
Lecture Notes – 15 min.
When you weigh yourself, do you expect to be the same weight at the doctors office? And the same if you weighed yourself in a different State?
Who makes sure that scales all give the same reading?
“If little else, the brain is an educational toy.”
Tom Robbins

3. More Expressed Powers Foreign Relations War Powers
Congress shares this power with the President who takes most of the responsibility
Examples:
War powers
Immigration regulation
Combat terrorism
War Powers
Declare war
Raise and support armies and navy
Make laws governing land and naval forces

4. Copyrights and Patents
Naturalization
Establish rules of becoming a citizen
Postal Power
Establishes a post office
Copyrights and Patents
Protects authors who reproduce publish and sell his or her work
Grants people the lone right to manufacture, use, or sell anything useful for up to 20 years.

5. Powers Over Territories and Other Areas
Weights and Measures
Fix standards of weights and measures throughout the US
In 1866 congress legalized the metric system in addition to the English system
Powers Over Territories and Other Areas
Acquire, manage and dispose of various federal areas
Washington DC
Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands
Military installations, arsenals, dockyards, post offices, prisons, parks and forest preserves
Other federal holdings

6. Judicial Powers Create all federal courts below the Supreme Court
Define federal crimes
Only four Expressed
Counterfeiting
Piracies and felonies on the high seas
Offenses against international law
Treason

7. The Implied Powers of Congress
Expressed Power: to lay and collect taxes
Expressed Power: to borrow money
Implied Power:
To punish tax evaders
To regulate (license) the sale of some commodities (such as alcohol) and outlaw the use of others (such as narcotics)
To require states to meet certain conditions to qualify for federal funding
Implied Power:
To establish the Federal Reserve System of banks
Expressed Power: to establish naturalization law
Implied Power:
To regulate and limit immigration

8. The Implied Powers of Congress
Expressed Power: to raise armies and a navy
Expressed Power: to regulate commerce
Implied Power:
To draft Americans into the military
Implied Power:
To establish a minimum wage
To ban discrimination in workplaces and public facilities
To pass laws protecting the disabled
To regulate banking
Expressed Power: to establish a post office
Implied Power:
To prohibit mail fraud and obstruction of the mail
To bar the shipping of certain items through the mail

10. Nonlegislative Powers of Congress
Constitutional Amendments
Congress may propose amendments by a 2/3 vote in each house.
State legislatures have petitioned Congress for amendments
Requiring congress to balance the federal budget each year
Prohibit flag burning
Permit flag burning
Permit prayer in public schools
Outlaw abortion

11. Electoral Duties Impeachment
The House may be called to elect a President if no candidate receives a majority in the electoral vote.
The Senate may choose a VP under the same circumstances.
Impeachment
Only the House may bring formal charges (Impeach) against the President or any civil officer.
Majority vote needed to pass
The Senate acts as the jury with the Chief Justice presiding.
2/3 vote needed to remove from office

12. Two Presidents have been impeached
Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton
Both were acquitted
Johnson faced the Radical Republicans that controlled congress who were unhappy with the lenient way he dealt with the South
Clinton was accused of lying under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky

13. Richard Nixon faced almost certain impeachment due to his involvement with the Watergate scandal.
He resigned instead
Executive Powers
Appointments
All major appointments made by the President must be approved by the Senate
Treaties
The President makes treaties with 2/3 of Senate approval

14. Investigatory Power
Congress has the power to investigate any matter that falls within the scope of its legislative power.
Reasons to Investigate
Gather info useful to making legislation
Oversee the executive branch agencies
Focus public attention on that issue
Expose questionable activity
Promote interests of Congress