HIST 2112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Enumerated Powers, First Amendment To The United States Constitution, Commerce Clause
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Congress can pass any laws to uphold the enumerated powers. Opens up a lot of unenumerated government. Congress can tax for the general welfare. General welfare: education, healthcare, infrastructure, roads these two clauses make the federal government"s powers explode. Any public business is part of interstate commerce, so congress is able to regulate it. The judicial branch determines if congress is following the laws and regulations of the constitution. The question was raised of how do we make the constitution the law of the land? . No congress is trying to take away some of the states rights, so the states would never approve. They decided to send it to the people. A separate convention was created in each state that votes on the constitution. When 3/4 of the state conventions say yes, the constitution goes into a ect. September 1787: the constitutional convention goes public (it was previously kept secret) Public opinion is split into 2 groups:
