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Do You Know What Powers Are Granted To Congress?

January 10, 2011 By taking

The Powers Granted To Congress

Even though the Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi Congress thought they could do anything they wanted to do…did you know that they can’t.

Congress can only exercise the powers that are listed in Article I, Section 8 of the US the Constitution?

Do you know what those powers are?

Our Founding Fathers did not give Congress any authority to demand that American citizens purchase a product or service.   So Mr Obama’s and the Reid Pelosi Congress (who we fired last November) have no authority to make the purchase of health care mandatory.

Article I, Section 8 of the U S Constitution

The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate Commerce with foreign nations, and among several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the value thereof, and foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting and the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish Post Offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings;

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States of in and department or officer thereof.

Now you know…..!!!!

Now you know what a corrupt group of politicians we fired last year.   Now you know what we must hold the new Congress accountable to.

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