Political And Congressional Powers Of The United States
In 1787, the United States of America was beginning to little by little form a whole nation. The Constitution serves as a foundation to our country, it guides the government and U.S. citizens.The Constitution must be followed in order to maintain the right of the citizens and in order to not create a destructive government. The constitution contains various articles and provisions that are significant since some of them state the powers of the government and the duties of the people. Constitutionally, Congress is assigned numerous responsibilities as well as the president is. However, both the president’s and the Congress’ powers are also limited and one can not easily overrule the other. The constitution also states rights to the people;
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A couple of the many congressional powers are the powers to “collect taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce,declare war, and maintain an army and navy” (Ginsberg et. al. 2017: 44). This allows congress to perform various tasks that can not easily be managed by a single or a few people but by various congressional leaders. For that reason, congress is granted these powers since they are able to manage all the responsibilities. The framers of the Constitution defined the “government's most important powers as belonging to Congress” (Ginsberg et. al. 2017: 44). The specific powers that are granted to Congress are known as “expressed powers”; nevertheless, the framers of the Constitution “intended to create and active and powerful government” and to do so in the Constitution they included a clause known as the “elastic clause” that allows Congress to write laws that that are necessary to “carry out expressed powers”(Ginsberg et. al. 2017: 44). For the reason that Congress holds various powers, it is important that they remain the same since congress is not only composed of one individual, but instead of a group of different individuals. Congress also has the duty to oversight means that Congress gets to “examine what the federal government is doing” and they do so by passing laws that ensure the federal government is fulfilling their job (Module 7 Lecture 2). This part of the Constitution shall also remain the same since Congress is allowed to have some power over the federal government so that it does not gain too much power or control. Congress also has the right of overriding presidential vetoes which is when “Congress passes a piece of legislation and the president uses his constitutional authority to veto it, Congress can with a supermajority vote override that veto”(Module 7 Lecture 2). This demonstrates
A couple of the many congressional powers are the powers to “collect taxes, borrow money, regulate commerce,declare war, and maintain an army and navy” (Ginsberg et. al. 2017: 44). This allows congress to perform various tasks that can not easily be managed by a single or a few people but by various congressional leaders. For that reason, congress is granted these powers since they are able to manage all the responsibilities. The framers of the Constitution defined the “government's most important powers as belonging to Congress” (Ginsberg et. al. 2017: 44). The specific powers that are granted to Congress are known as “expressed powers”; nevertheless, the framers of the Constitution “intended to create and active and powerful government” and to do so in the Constitution they included a clause known as the “elastic clause” that allows Congress to write laws that that are necessary to “carry out expressed powers”(Ginsberg et. al. 2017: 44). For the reason that Congress holds various powers, it is important that they remain the same since congress is not only composed of one individual, but instead of a group of different individuals. Congress also has the duty to oversight means that Congress gets to “examine what the federal government is doing” and they do so by passing laws that ensure the federal government is fulfilling their job (Module 7 Lecture 2). This part of the Constitution shall also remain the same since Congress is allowed to have some power over the federal government so that it does not gain too much power or control. Congress also has the right of overriding presidential vetoes which is when “Congress passes a piece of legislation and the president uses his constitutional authority to veto it, Congress can with a supermajority vote override that veto”(Module 7 Lecture 2). This demonstrates