checks and balances
bill of rights
All powers are in one hand.
The web address of the Historic Madison is: http://www.historicmadisoninc.com
The web address of the Madison Historical Society is: www.historicalmadison.org
The web address of the Madison Historical Society is: madisonhistorical.org
The Framers demanded that a Bill of Rights be included in the US Constitution as a way to address their concerns. The major concern included the government becoming too powerful and compromising the freedoms and rights they had fought for.
The web address of the Madison Evarts Archives is: http://evartsarchives.org
The web address of the Madison County Museum is: http://www.madisoncountyhistory.org
The web address of the Madison Museum Of Contemporary Art is: http://www.mmoca.org
The web address of the Madison Childrens Museum Foundation is: http://www.madisonchildrensmuseum.org
The web address of the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center is: http://www.mmcc-arts.org
The power to tax is an expressed power of Congress and the power to declare laws unconstitutional is not. Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution is a list of Congress' powers. The first sentence of the first paragraph begins: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Inposts and Excises, . . ." The Constitution does not address the issue of declaring laws unconstitutional at all. The Supreme Court decided that judges in the federal courts had the authority to determine whether federal laws were allowable under the Constitution in 1804 in the case of Marbury vs. Madison, when they decided a law had no force or effect because it was not proper under the Constitution.