The powers of the U.S. Congress : where constitutional authority begins and ends / Brien Hallett, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hallett, Brien, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xix, 298 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

ABC-CLIO, 2016.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Offering a unique resource for students, scholars, and citizens, this work fully explains all of the 21 enumerated powers of the U.S. Congress, from the "power of the purse" to the power to declare war. This work presents a comprehensive overview of the 21 congressional powers enumerated in the Constitution of the United States through essays that focus on each power. These informative essays introduce and explain each power individually, address its evolution from 1789 to the modern day and into the foreseeable future, and provide real-world examples of how each power has been applied through U.S. history. The comprehensive content enables an understanding of the mutually supporting interplay of all of the legislative powers in our government's system of checks and balances, and it allows readers to better appreciate how radical and daring the framers were at the Philadelphia convention in 1787. Readers will learn about Congressional powers that greatly impact modern citizens, many of which are frequently mentioned in news media due to policy struggles over budget, immigration, and national security; debates regarding the ideal size and role of government; and many others. The contributors also address questions regarding the responsibilities of the Congress, the ways in which Congress has met or failed to meet these responsibilities over the past two centuries, and what changes to congressional power may come in the future.

Contents:

The power to tax / Erik M. Jensen

The power to borrow money / Jacob Holt

The power to regulate commerce / Brien Hallett

The power to regulate immigration / Joanna Mosser

The power to regulate bankruptcies / Nancy Marcus and Judith K. Fitzgerald

The power to regulate money and weights and measures / David R. Smith and Robert Jefferson Dillard

The power to establish post offices and post roads / Richard B. Kielbowicz

The power to regulate patents and copyright / Colin D. Moore

The power to constitute tribunals / Rebecca L. Keeler

The power to punish piracies and offenses against the Law of Nations / Cindy Galway Buys

The power to declare war / Brien Hallett

The power to raise and support armies and to provide and maintain a navy / Robert C. Chalwell Jr.

The power to regulate land and naval forces / Donald E. Heidenreich, Jr.

The power to call forth and regulate the militia / Paul Lorenzo Johnson

The power to regulate for federal property / Mary M. Cheh

The power to appropriate money and to budget / Craig Goodman

The power to advise and consent (treaties) / Jeffrey S. Peake

The power to advise and consent (appointments) / Mitchel A. Sollenberger

The power to enforce the Civil War amendments / Jesse Merriam

Appendix A: The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union

Appendix B: The Constitution of the United States of America.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9798400699948

9798216131229

9781440843242

1440843244

OCLC:

967077351