Dormant Powers in the United States

Dormant Powers

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 456 DORMANT POWERSA constitutional power is called dormant if it is granted by the constitution but is not currently being exercised. For a variety of reasons Congress may not see fit to exercise power which it has been granted by the Constitution. These dormant powers may be “awakened” whenever
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