Answer: There are 27 expressed powers
The most important powers are :
- the power to tax and to borrow money, regulate currency and commerce, to raise armies and to declare wars.
Other powers include :
- establishing U. S. citizenship rules,
- to make rules for bankruptcy,
- the power to set a national post office,
- the power to punish pirates and many more.
The Congress also has implied powers to make any laws to carry out the expressed powers.
