Most of the powers of the federal government are those powers enumerated or listed or given to Congress in one part of the Constitution. There are a few others that you can find throughout the document. Most of them can be found in Article 1, Section 8, with 18 separate clauses. And its powers include primarily the power to establish a uniform system of laws governing immigration and naturalization, who can come into the country, who becomes a citizen, and so forth. (28:38–28:43)
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Asserts that the majority of federal powers are listed in Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.
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