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American National Government

            1) Article I of the Constitution states the powers which congress will be allotted and also which restrictions will be placed upon the Senate and House of Representatives. Some powers have been delegated to both the House and Senate while others have been given to only one of the two. The powers which Congress as a whole have been given in Section 8 of Article I include, the ability to: tax and spend in order to pay debts and to provide for the defense and welfare of the United States; borrow money on the credit of the United States; regulate commerce with foreign nations, between the states and with Indian tribes; establish uniform naturalization rules and bankruptcy laws; coin and regulate the value of money, regulate the value of foreign money, and fix the standard of weights and measures; provide punishment for counterfeiting United States securities and money; establish post offices and post roads; promote progress of science and useful arts by securing authors and inventors, for a limited time, the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries; create tribunals inferior to the supreme court; define and punish piracies and felonies committed at sea and offenses against the law of nature; declare war; create and sustain an army and a navy; make rules for the government and regulation of land and naval forces; provide for calling forth a militia and provide for organizing, arming and governing the militia; exercise exclusive legislation to construct any needful buildings; and finally to make any law necessary to carry out the forgoing powers. .
             The Constitution, in Section 9 of Article I, also places the following restrictions on congress.


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