POLI 2P97 Lecture : Monday March 17th 2014 2p97.docx
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Financial: ability to raise taxes, pay down national debt, regulate trade and comers, regulate welfare, was supposed to be strictly about regulating money and manage finance, has the ability to borrow money, spend it and raise takes legal, sets us citizen laws, how is citizenship mediated, regulate bankrupt laws, fix national weights and measures, imperial system, enact laws. Where a lot of laws get their authority institutional: organize the judicial system, prez appoints judges but congress has to approve them, congress established a 9 court bench, has the ability to impeach and remove judges, doesn"t have the ability to rule on cases, set up postal systems, control over national capital, d. c is not part of a state, run by congress, congress has never turned d. c into a state because it would put 2 democratic senators into the senate, can remove a mayor.