The Congress shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general wellfare of the united states.
Congress has been granted sovereign powers. These powers are the power to borrow money, the power to regulate Federal property, levying and collecting taxes, trade regulations, and military power.
Congress could tax goods coming into the country but not goods going out.
They could set taxes and regulate trade power.
regulate trade set up army raise money with taxes force states to obey its laws
They could set taxes and regulate trade power.
They could set taxes and regulate trade power.
The powers of Congress that are written into the U.S. Constitution are called enumerated powers. The powers are set in the amendment of forth in Article I.
Trade is a delegated power to the US Congress.
impose taxes and to trade with other nations
Regulate interstate trade.
Commerce and Slave-Trade Compromise
The Articles of Confederation limited the powers of the central government, known as the Confederation Congress. This central government had limited authority and could not levy taxes or regulate trade, among other limitations.