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 enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. During the much-publicized Senate hearings on his nomination to ...

The authority to impose tariffs is nowhere to be found in the Constitution, where the limited powers of the president are ...

The second was to reaffirm the nature of the federal system. Because the Constitution created a government of limited and enumerated powers, the Framers initially believed that a bill of rights ...

I do not like people who lie and bully people and alienate our friends and cozy up to our adversaries just to get ahead, but ...

Regardless of whether we’re talking about the Constitution’s guarantee that states shall not infringe the “privileges or immunities” of citizens or its guarantee that the enumeration of ...

Differences about the size and role of the federal government created a lot of conflict over the Constitution. The anti-Federalists insisted on enumerated protections (the Bill of Rights ...

Critics of the Tea Party point to this clause in the original constitution as proof that the Tea Party wants to take the country backwards, but Tea Party constitutionalists, for the most part ...