What key constitutional provisions define the scope of authority for the federal and state government?

Article I  Legislative Branch

• Section 8 Enumerated Powers

  • Clause 1 General Welfare Clause

  • 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;

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    • Article I  Legislative Branch
    • Section 8 Enumerated Powers
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    • ArtI.S8.C1.1 Taxing Clause
      • ArtI.S8.C1.1.1  Taxing Power
    • ArtI.S8.C1.2 Spending Clause
      • ArtI.S8.C1.2.1  Spending Power
  • Clause 2 Borrowing

  • To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;

    • ArtI.S8.C2.1  Borrowing Power of Congress
  • Clause 3 Commerce

  • To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

    • ArtI.S8.C3.1 Foreign
      • ArtI.S8.C3.1.1  Overview of Foreign Commerce Clause
      • ArtI.S8.C3.1.2  Instruments of Commerce
    • ArtI.S8.C3.2 Interstate
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.1  Overview of Interstate Commerce Clause
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.2  Meaning of Commerce
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.3  Among the Several States
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.4  Regulate
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.5  Limits on Exercise
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.6  Sherman Act Sugar Trust Case
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.7  Sherman Act Revived
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.8  Current of Commerce Concept and Swift Case
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.9  Danbury Hatters
      • ArtI.S8.C3.2.10  Stockyards and Grain Futures Acts
    • ArtI.S8.C3.3 Depression Era
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.1  Securities and Exchange Commission
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.2  Congressional Regulation of Production and Industrial Relations: Antidepression Legislation
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.3  National Industrial Recovery Act
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.4  Agricultural Adjustment Act
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.5  Bituminous Coal Conservation Act
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.6  Railroad Retirement Act
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.7  National Labor Relations Act
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.8  Fair Labor Standards Act
      • ArtI.S8.C3.3.9  Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act
    • ArtI.S8.C3.4 Modern Commerce Clause Doctrine
      • ArtI.S8.C3.4.1  Is There an Intrastate Barrier to Congress’s Commerce Power?
      • ArtI.S8.C3.4.2  Activity Versus Inactivity
      • ArtI.S8.C3.4.3  Civil Rights
      • ArtI.S8.C3.4.4  Criminal Law
    • ArtI.S8.C3.5 Police Power
      • ArtI.S8.C3.5.1  Overview of National Police Power
      • ArtI.S8.C3.5.2  Economic Regulation
    • ArtI.S8.C3.6 Dormant Commerce Clause
      • ArtI.S8.C3.6.1  Dormant Commerce Clause Overview
      • ArtI.S8.C3.6.2  State Proprietary Activity Authorization
      • ArtI.S8.C3.6.3  Authorization of Otherwise Impermissible State Action
      • ArtI.S8.C3.6.4  Foreign Commerce and State Powers
      • ArtI.S8.C3.6.5 State Taxation
        • ArtI.S8.C3.6.5.1  Early Treatment
        • ArtI.S8.C3.6.5.2  Modern Approach
    • ArtI.S8.C3.7  Commerce With Native American Tribes: Scope of Authority
    • ArtI.S8.C3.8  Commerce With Native American Tribes: Restrictions on State Powers
  • Clause 4 Naturalization and Bankruptcy Clauses

  • To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

    • ArtI.S8.C4.1 Naturalization
      • ArtI.S8.C4.1.1  Naturalization Clause Overview
      • ArtI.S8.C4.1.2  Expatriation
    • ArtI.S8.C4.2 Bankruptcy
      • ArtI.S8.C4.2.1  Scope of Federal Bankruptcy Clause
      • ArtI.S8.C4.2.2  Expansion of the Scope of the Bankruptcy Power
      • ArtI.S8.C4.2.3  Constitutional Limitations on the Bankruptcy Power
      • ArtI.S8.C4.2.4  Restriction on State Bankruptcy Power
  • Clause 5 Standards

  • To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

    • ArtI.S8.C5.1  Coinage Power of Congress
  • Clause 6 Counterfeiters

  • To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

    • ArtI.S8.C6.1  Counterfeiting Power
  • Clause 7 Post Offices

  • To establish Post Offices and post Roads;

    • ArtI.S8.C7.1  Historical Background on Post Offices
    • ArtI.S8.C7.2  Power to Protect the Mails
    • ArtI.S8.C7.3  Power to Prevent Harmful Use of Postal Facilities
    • ArtI.S8.C7.4  Exclusive Power as an Adjunct to Other Powers
    • ArtI.S8.C7.5  Restrictions on State Power Over Postal Offices
  • Clause 8 Intellectual Property

  • 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;

    • ArtI.S8.C8.1  Origin and Scope of Congress’s Power Over Intellectual Property
    • ArtI.S8.C8.2  Patent Power of Congress and Patentable Discoveries
    • ArtI.S8.C8.3  Nature and Scope of the Right
    • ArtI.S8.C8.4  Copyright Power of Congress
    • ArtI.S8.C8.5  Copyright and the First Amendment
    • ArtI.S8.C8.6  State Power Over Intellectual Power
    • ArtI.S8.C8.7  Trademarks, Advertisements, and Congress’s Intellectual Property Power
  • Clause 9 Courts

  • To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

    • ArtI.S8.C9.1  Congress’s Power to Create Courts
  • Clause 10 Maritime Crimes

  • To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations;

    • ArtI.S8.C10.1  Historical Background
    • ArtI.S8.C10.2  Definition of Maritime Crimes and Offenses
    • ArtI.S8.C10.3  Extraterritorial Reach
  • Clause 11 War Powers

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

    • ArtI.S8.C11.1  Declaring War
    • ArtI.S8.C11.2  Enemy Property
    • ArtI.S8.C11.3  Prizes of War
  • Clause 12 To Raise and Maintain Armies

  • To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

    • ArtI.S8.C12.1  Historical Background
    • ArtI.S8.C12.2  Time Limit on Appropriations for the Army
    • ArtI.S8.C12.3  Conscription
  • Clause 13 Navy Clause

  • To provide and maintain a Navy;

    • ArtI.S8.C13.1  Congress’s Naval Power
  • Clause 14 Land and Naval Force Rules

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

    • ArtI.S8.C14.1  Care of the Armed Forces
    • ArtI.S8.C14.2  Trial and Punishment of Servicemen
    • ArtI.S8.C14.3  Trial and Punishment of Civilians and Dependents
  • Clause 15 To Call Militias

  • To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

    • ArtI.S8.C15.1  Congress’s Power to Call Militias
  • Clause 16 Organization of Militias

  • 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 the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

    • ArtI.S8.C16.1  Congress’s Power to Organize Militias
  • Clause 17 Enclave Clause

  • 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 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;–And

    • ArtI.S8.C17.1 The Capitol
      • ArtI.S8.C17.1.1  Seat of Government Clause Historical Background
      • ArtI.S8.C17.1.2  Seat of Government Doctrine and Practice
    • ArtI.S8.C17.2 Places Puerchased
      • ArtI.S8.C17.2.1  Places Purchased Clause Overview
      • ArtI.S8.C17.2.2  Federal Jurisdiction
      • ArtI.S8.C17.2.3  Reservation of Jurisdiction by States
  • Clause 18 Necessary and Proper Clause

  • 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, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

    • ArtI.S8.C18.1  Overview of Necessary and Proper Clause
    • ArtI.S8.C18.2  Historical Background of the Necessary and Proper Clause
    • ArtI.S8.C18.3  Early Doctrine and McCulloch v. Maryland
    • ArtI.S8.C18.4  Post-McCulloch Nineteenth Century Development
    • ArtI.S8.C18.5  Twentieth Century to Present Doctrine
    • ArtI.S8.C18.6  Meaning of Proper
    • ArtI.S8.C18.7 Investigations and Oversight
      • ArtI.S8.C18.7.1  Historical Background
      • ArtI.S8.C18.7.2  Implied Power of Congress to Conduct Investigations and Oversight: Doctrine and Practice
    • ArtI.S8.C18.8 Immigration
      • ArtI.S8.C18.8.1  Overview
      • ArtI.S8.C18.8.2 Historical Background
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.2.1  English Common Law
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.2.2  Colonial Practice and Constitutional Convention
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.2.3  Early Federal Laws
      • ArtI.S8.C18.8.3  Pre-Plenary Power Jurisprudence (1837–1889)
      • ArtI.S8.C18.8.4  Early Plenary Power Jurisprudence (1889–1900)
      • ArtI.S8.C18.8.5 Twentieth Century Plenary Power Doctrine
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.5.1  Overview
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.5.2  Aliens in the United States
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.5.3  Aliens Seeking to Enter the United States
      • ArtI.S8.C18.8.6 Modern Jurisprudence
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.6.1  Overview
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.6.2  Exclusion of Aliens
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.6.3  Kerry v. Din and Trump v. Hawaii
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.6.4  Federal Laws Relating to Aliens
        • ArtI.S8.C18.8.6.5  Immigration-Related State Laws
      • ArtI.S8.C18.8.7  Conclusion

What are 2 main functions of federal government and 2 main functions of state governments?

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What is the constitutional status of state governments in the federal system quizlet?

What are the major provisions of government in the Constitution?