Division of Powers

POWERS OF THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

CONCURRENT POWERS

POWERS RESERVED TO STATE GOVERNMENTS

To regulate foreign trade and commerce between states

To borrow and coin money

To conduct foreign relations with other nations

To establish post offices and roads

To raise and support armed forces

To declare war and make peace

To govern territories and admit new states

To pass naturalization laws and regulate immigration

To make all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out its powers

To collect taxes

To borrow money

To establish and maintain courts

To make and enforce laws

To provide for the health and welfare of the people

To regulate trade within the state

To establish local governments

To conduct elections

To determine voter qualifications

To establish and supports public schools

To incorporate business firms

To license professional workers

To ratify amendments

To keep all the “reserved powers” not granted to the national government nor prohibited to the states

POWERS DENIED TO THE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

POWERS DENIED TO BOTH NATIONAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS

POWERS DENIED TO STATE GOVERNMENTS

To tax exports

To suspend writ of habeas corpus

To charge state boundaries without consent of states involved

To abridge the Bill of Rights

To pass ex post facto laws

To pass bills of attainder

To deny die process of law

To grant titles of nobility

To coin money

To enter into treaties

To tax agencies of the federal government

To tax imports or exports