https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q Powers that cover matters such as foreign affairs & national security en-us 2018-10-23 20:27:38 UTC 2025-12-15 14:53:46 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Shakinghands.png 339825 https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189360 -Congress shares power with the President 
- Because the States in the Union are not sovereign, they have no standing in international law
- The constitution does not allow them to take part in foreign relations
2 SOURCES of FOREIGN RELATIONS
1) Various expressed powers, especially the war powers & power to regulate foreign commerce
2) The U.S. is a sovereign state ]]> 2018-10-23 20:33:57 UTC https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189360 339825 https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189433 -Congress shares power with chief executive 
- Congressional war powers are extensive and substantial
-Only congress can declare war 
- Congress has the power to raise ans support armies, provide and maintain the navy, and to make rules governing the land and naval forces. 
- Has power to make rules concerning captures on land and water ]]> 2018-10-23 20:34:12 UTC https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189433 339825 https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189505 Copyright definition: Exclusive right of an author to reproduce, publish, & sell their creative work
- Copyrights are registered by the Copyright Office in the Library of Congress
- Cover: magazines, book, newspapers, dramatic works, musical compositions, etc
-A patent grants a person the sole right to manufacture, use, or sell
-It is good for up to 20 years
-The term patent may be extended only by a special act of Congress

]]> 2018-10-23 20:34:25 UTC https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189505 339825 https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189654 - In 1838 Congress set the English system of pound, foot, gallon, quart, etc
-In 1866 Congress created the National Bureau of Standards in the Commerce Department 
Eminent Domain: the power to take property for public use ]]> 2018-10-23 20:34:56 UTC https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189654 339825 https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189697 Definition: Citizens of one country become citizens of another 
-Congress has the exclusive power to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalized Citizens

]]> 2018-10-23 20:35:04 UTC https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189697 339825 https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189780 - System of checks and balances
- Has expressed power to create all federal courts below the federal judiciary
-Congress also has power to define federal crimes and set punishment
-Congress has used its implied powers to establish more than one hundred other federal crimes ]]> 2018-10-23 20:35:15 UTC https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189780 339825 https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189950 -Congress has the power to establish Post Offices and post Roads
- Post Roads: Railroads, airways, and water w/in the United States
Benjamin Franklin- founder of present-day postal system ]]> 2018-10-23 20:35:49 UTC https://padlet.com/339825/2epxji189o4q/wish/296189950