These powers are enumerated by Article 1, Section 8 of the United Constitution. It grants Congress the ability to declare war, and the coining and regulation money
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They include the power to lay and collect taxes, to coin money, to regulate foreign and interstate commerce, to raise and maintain armed forces, to declare war, to fix standards of weights and measures, and to grant patents and copyrights.
According to the U.S. Constitution, Congress is to regulate intrastate commerce by lowering barriers to free trade among the several states. Congress is restricted to levying only excise taxes and apportioned direct taxes to the states, and is strictly barred from levying unapportion direct tax on the People. Congress is the only body that can declare war and it is strictly limited in that it may only coin money from gold and silver, no fiat currency is allowed.
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It HAS the power to coin money, regulate trade among states with other countries, declare war, but theyCANNOT regulate trade within a state.