Assignment task: Under the plan laid out in the Constitution, the states delegated some (but not all) of their powers to the newly created federal government. Most of these powers are understood to flow directly from the list of subjects about which Congress may pass legislation. We call these Congress's [Select] powers. For example, Congress may "coin Money," "establish Post Offices," "establish [rules governing] Naturalization," as well as, create and maintain an Army and a Navy. It seemed to the Framers that they had carefully limited the scope of what the federal government could do by explicitly conferring only some specific powers to it. Yet, some people at the time must have doubted this, or, perhaps the Framers thought they should confirm this understanding, because they included the [Select] Amendment, which expressly states that the states reserve all powers that were not given to the federal government by the Constitution, in the [Select].