(delegated powers) - powers specifically listed in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution as being granted to the Congress.

Enumerated powers is a term referring to Article 1 Section 8 of the United States Constitution which lists the specific powers of legislation granted to the United States Congress. The concept of enumerated powers implies that the legislature may exercise only those powers that are stated in the Constitution, limited, of course, by the Bill of Rights and the other protections found in the Constitutional text. The classical statement of a government of enumerated powers is that by Chief Justice Marshall in Mc Culloch v.