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34 CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
ties, imposts and excises shall be uniform
throughout the United States.
2. To borrow money on the credit of the
United States.
3. To regulate commerce with foreign
nations, and among the several States. and
with the Indian tribes.
4. To establish a uniform rule of natural-
ization, and uniform laws on the subject
of bankruptcies throughout the United
States
5. To coin money, regulate the value
thereof, and of foreign com. and fix the
standard of weights and measures.
6 To provide for the punishment of coun-
terfeiting the securities and current coin
of the United States.
7. To establish postoffices and postroads.
8. To promote the progress of science
and useful arts, by securing, for limited
times, to authors and inventors the exclu-
sive right to their respective writings and
discoveries.
9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the
Supreme Court.
10. To define and punish piracies and
felonies committed on the high seas, and
offenses against the law of nations.
11. To declare war, grant letters of
marue and reprisal, and make rules con-
cerning captures on land and water.
12. To raise and support armies, but no
appropriations of money to that use shall
be for a longer term than two years.
13. To provide and maintain a navy.
14. To make rules for the government and
regulation of the land and naval forces.
15. To provide for calhng forth the mili-
tia to execute the laws of thie Union. sup-
press insurrections and reel invasions.
16. To provide for organizing, arming and
disciplining the militia, and for governing
such parts of them as may be employed
in the service of the United States. re-
serving to the States. respectively, the ap-
pointment of the officers and the authority
of training the militia according to the
discipline prescribed by Congress.
17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all
cases whatsoever over such district (not
exceeding ten miles square) as may, by
cession of particular States. and the ac-
ceptance of Congress, become the seat of
the Government of the United States, and
to exercise like authority over all places
purchased by the consent of the Legisla-
ture of the State in which the same shall
he. for the erection of forts magazines,
arsenals. dockyards and other needful
buildings; and
18. To make all laws which shall be nec-
essary and proper for carrying into execu-
tion the foregoing powers, and all other
powers vested by this Constitution in the
Government of the United States, or in any
department or officer thereof.
Sec 9. 1 The migration or importation
of such persons as any of the States now
existing shall think proper to admit shall
not be prohibited by the Congress prior to
che year 1808, but a. tax or duty may be
imposed on such importation, not exceeding
ten dollars for each person.
2. The privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus shall not be suspended. unless when
In case of rebellion or invasion the public
safety may require it.
3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto
law shall be passed.
4. No capitation or other direct tax shall
be iaid, unless in proportion to the census
or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be
taken.
5. No tax or duty shall be laid on arti-
cles exported from any State, No prefer-
ence shall be given by any regulation of
,ommerce or revenue to the ports of one
State over those of another; nor shall ves-
els bound to or from one State be obliged
to enter, clear or pay duties in another.
-6. No money shall be drawn from the
Treasury, but in consequence of appropria-tions made by law: and a regular state-
ment and account of the receipts and ex-
penditures of all public money shall be
published from time to time.
7. No .title of nobility shall be granted
by the United States; and no person holding
any office of profit or trust under them
shall, without the consent of the Congress.
accept of any present, emolument, office or
title of any kind whatever, from any King,
Prince, or foreign State.
Sec. 10. 1. No State shall enter into any
treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant
letters of marque and reprisal: coin money:
emit bills of credit; make anything but
gold and silver coin a tender in payment of
debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post
facto law, or law impairing the obligation
of contracts, or grant any title of nobilbt
2. No State shall, without the consent of
the Congress, lay any Imposts. or duties
on imports or exports, except what may be
absolutely necessary for executing its in-
spection laws; and the net produce of all
duties and imposts laid by any State on im-
ports or exports, shall be for the use of
the Treasury of the United States: and all
such laws shall be subject to the revision
and control of the Congress.
3. No 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 such imminent danger as will not admit
of delay.
Article II.
Sec. 1. 1. The executive power shall
be vested in a President of the United
States of America. He shall hold his office
during the term of four years, and, to-
gether with the Vice President, chosen for
the same term, be elected as follows:
2. Each State shall appoint. in such man-
ner as the Legislature thereof may direct,
a number of electors, equal to the whole
number of Senators and Representatives to
which the State may be entitled in the
Congress; but no Senator or Representative,
or person holding an office of trust or profit
under the United States shall be appointed
an elector.
3. The electors shall meet in their re-
spective States, and vote by ballot for two
persons, of whom one at least shall not be
an inhabitant of the same State with them-
selves. And they shall make a list of all
the persons voted for, and of the number
of votes for each: which list they shall
sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the
seat of the Government of the United States.
directed to the President of the Senate.
The President of the Senate shall, in the
presence of the Senate and House of Rep-
resentatives, open all the certificates, and
the votes shall then be counted. The Per-
son having the greatest number of votes
shall be the President, if such number be
a majority of the whole number of electors
appointed; and if there be more than one
who have such majority, and have an equal
number of votes, then the House of Repre-
sentatives shall immediately choose by bal-
lot one of them for President: and if no per-
son have a majority, then from the five
highest on the list the said house shall in
like manner choose the President. But in
choosing the President, the votes shall be
taken by States, the representation from
each State having one vote. A--uorum for
this purpose shall consist of a member or
members from two-thirds of the States, and
a majority of all the States shall be neces-
sary to a choice. In every case, after the
choice of- the President, the person having
the greatest number of votes of the electors
shall be the Vice President. - But if there
should remain two or more who have equal
votes, the Senate shall choose from them by
ballot the Vice President.
4. The Congress may determine the time
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