American Government 101 – a Review

As we are instructed in our government classes, the federal government is a government of limited, specifically enumerated powers. While the states have plenary authority to address a broad array of issues, the people and the states established the federal government and specified a limited number of things it can do.

As students of the Constitution know, the job of the federal government is to regulate immigration, coin money, raise and support armies, define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and make rules for the government and regulation of the national basketball association.