Below I've listed the powers vested in the Congress by the Constitution. Congress can tax and borrow money in order to provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States:
- To regulate commerce (amongst states and internationally)
- To make naturalization law
- To make bankruptcy law
- To print and coin money and to regulate its value and the value of foreign money.
- To set standards of weights and measures;
- To punish the counterfeiting of U.S. securities and money.
- To establish post offices and post roads;
- To secure patents for inventors.
- To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme Court.
- To define and punish piracy and violations of international law (The Law of Nations).
- To declare War (and grant letters of marque and reprisal) and make rules concerning captures on land and water.
- To maintain an army and a navy and set laws governing them.
- To provide for calling forth the militia to enforce law, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
- To make legislation for the District of Columbia.
- To make laws necessary to execute the powers listed above and all other powers listed in this Constitution.
