Category: Powers Denied to the States
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Tonnage Duties
Tonnage DutiesThe purpose of the Tonnage Clause is "to 'restrai[n] the states themselves from the exercise' of the taxing power 'injuriously to the interests of each other.' . . . In writing the Tonnage Clause, the Framers recognized that, if 'the states had been left free t…
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Grants of Franchise
Grants of Franchise to Corporations by Two States (Interstate Compacts)It is competent for a railroad corporation organized under the laws of one state, when authorized so to do by the consent of the state that created it, to accept authority from another state to extend its railroad into such state…
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Interstate Compacts
Clause 3. Tonnage Duties and Interstate CompactsNo State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in s…
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Keeping Troops
Keeping TroopsThis provision contemplates the use of the state's military power to put down an armed insurrection too strong to be controlled by civil authority,1 and the organization and maintenance of an active state militia is not a keeping of…
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Consent of Congress
Interstate Compacts: Consent of CongressThe Constitution makes no provision with regard to the time when the consent of Congress shall be given or the mode or form by which it shall be signified.1 While the consent will usually precede the compact or…