id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8165 Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia .html text/html 7977 793 56 The United States Congress, under Article I of the Constitution, is the legislative branch of the federal government. Enumerated in Article I, Section 8, these include the powers to levy and collect taxes; to coin money and regulate its value; provide for punishment for counterfeiting; establish post offices and roads, issue patents, create federal courts inferior to the Supreme Court, combat piracies and felonies, declare war, raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, make rules for the regulation of land and naval forces, provide for, arm and discipline the militia, exercise exclusive legislation in the District of Columbia, regulate interstate commerce, and to make laws necessary to properly execute powers. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8165.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8165.txt