The 18 Enumerated Powers for the Federal Government!
Below are the 18 powers granted the Federal Government through the Constitution, by the States, and
People. Anything outside that is a violating of federal jurisdiction. The 10th Amendment states
clearly...
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,
are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
This means what it states... the powers NOT delegated to the federal government are the States and
Peoples, so ANY jurisdictional claims, be it for IRS, over lands, or whatever, is illegal.
United States Constitution
Article 1 Section 8
1 - 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;
2 - To borrow money on the credit of the
United States;
3 - To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among
the several states, and with the Indian tribes;
4 - To establish a
uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies
throughout the United States;
5 - To coin money, regulate the value
thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and
measures;
6 - To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the
securities and current coin of the United States;
7 - To establish post
offices and post roads;
8 - 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;
9 - To constitute tribunals
inferior to the Supreme Court;
10 - To define and punish piracies and
felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of
nations;
11 - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and
make rules concerning captures on land and water;
12 - To raise and
support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer
term than two years;
13 - To provide and maintain a navy;
14 - To
make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval
forces;
15 - To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws
of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;
16 - 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;
17 - 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 the
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, dockyards, and other needful
buildings;"And
18 - 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.
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