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 ...

Abortion rights do not hinge on who is elected president, or on which party controls Congress. The issue is out of their ...

Because the Constitution created a government of limited and enumerated powers, the Framers initially believed that a bill of rights was not only unnecessary, but also potentially dangerous.

This "power of the purse" grants Congress a broad power to tax and spend on things it cannot directly regulate through some other enumerated power. Id.; License Tax Cases, 72 U.S. 462, 471 (1866 ...

This formalized the principle of enumerated powers, under which federal law can govern only as to matters within the terms of some power-granting clause of the Constitution. By including the ...

The biggest lie roiling the election is Vice President Kamala Harris' claim that former President Donald Trump will ban ...

The biggest lie roiling the election is Vice President Harris’s claim that President Trump will ban abortion nationwide.

The Ninth and 10th Circuits are at odds over the Biden administration's $15 minimum wage for government contractors.

A whirlwind history of the administrative state By specifically outlining what jobs the federal government had the authority ...

Coal companies providing power for rural Kentucky residents say they will have to pay millions to comply with a Biden administration rule cleaning up old ash disposal sites.

Utah has spent more than $500,000 on its lawsuit attacking federal control over public lands — while budgeting more than twice that on a blitz to influence public opinion.

Even if the Party does uphold the post-Roe status quo, in which reproductive rights are enumerated with varying limits or ...