Congress's neglect of enumerated powers fuels the fusion of spending and regulation, enabling unchecked federal intervention ...

One way to limit the power of the new Congress under the Constitution was to be specific about what it could do. These enumerated, or listed, powers were contained in Article I, Section 8—the ...

The Framers were wary both of despotic rule (such as they had experienced under Britain's King George III) and of mob rule; as such, their version of federalism created a national government that ...

Obviously, the nation chose to include the Bill of Rights, but only with the Tenth Amendment as a bulwark against implying any alteration in the original scheme of enumerated powers. If Congress ...

This contradicts the Constitution’s Article I, which vests enumerated legislative powers solely with Congress. Such a dynamic, they and many others argue, needs to change. One of the receptacles ...

The second was to help effectuate the other enumerated powers of Congress. The third, and most general, was to define the limits of these implied or incidental powers. As to the first purpose ...

Those who adhere to a strict interpretation of the Constitution believe the government does not have any authority not specifically listed as one of the Enumerated Powers of Congress. Critics also ...

The Trump administration backed down Wednesday from its sloppy order — after the edict was put on hold by a federal judge — imposing a sweeping federal spending freeze. But even as it backtracked, the ...

For ninety years, Congress and the Supreme Court have treated Congress’ first enumerated power as one of both taxing and spending. The clause reads, “The Congress shall have Power To lay and ...