I have only this question for social studies and i can't find it in the book. its on my review sheet as: what gives Congress the power to pass laws needed to carry out its other powers?
2007-02-12 13:49:51 · 8 answers · asked by StarLight 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
I have only this question for social studies and i can't find it in the book. its on my review sheet as: what gives Congress the power to pass laws needed to carry out its other powers? AND I GOT THE ANSWER YESTERDAY FROM MY TEACHER AND IT ISN'T THE flippin constitution people!
2007-02-15 08:58:12 · update #1
The U.S.Constitution is both their authorization and their limitation. All of the U.S. Congress's powers are detailed in Article 1 (with an important clarification in Amendment 10), but you can read the whole constitution, with all its amendments (most of which are only ONE SENTENCE long), in less than a half-hour. Please do this...do it for all of us.
But what makes your question interesting is a follow-up question that you'd have asked if you had actually read the constitution:
If Congress breaks the law that empowers and limits it (and congress has very badly flouted the constitution), then are they any longer authorized to write laws?
In other words, can a criminal organization write laws and expect you to obey? Can just anybody write laws?
Answer: Yes, if they have all the guns.
You can read the whole constitution and read some commentary about it at www.thefreedomfarm.com
2007-02-12 13:58:33 · answer #1 · answered by andrewhorning 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The United States Constitution Article I Section 8
2007-02-12 13:57:08 · answer #2 · answered by btmead21 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Power To Pass
2016-11-07 07:04:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The People of the United States.
The US consistution Artical I, Secton 8 specifies the powers of congress to pass laws, but the power itself stems the people of the United States, who in ratifying the constitution vested that power in congress.
Since that time, the citizens of the US have continued to vest such power in the congress by continuing to follow the constituion.
Abraham Lincoln, perhaps, put it best" the United States goverment is "of the people, by the people, for the people".
That was a radical idea 200 years ago, and people sometimes forget what that means. All the power of the US goverment comes from the PEOPLE. Not the constitution, not the miltary, not congress, not a church, not a king, not courts, not states, and not the president. The power comes the PEOPLE.
2007-02-12 18:29:46 · answer #4 · answered by tallthatsme 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Constitution
2007-02-12 13:52:19 · answer #5 · answered by scarlettt_ohara 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The flippin' Constitution.
2007-02-12 13:56:03 · answer #6 · answered by snoweagleltd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The constitution stipulates who can create laws, and what they can be about - there are differences between what the Senate can do and what the house can cover.
2007-02-12 15:35:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because we gave them the power to do so when we elected them to do so!
2007-02-12 13:59:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋