Joint or

ders or resolutions to be approved by

dent.

Powers of

Congress

ner as

shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a law, in like Man= if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment pre= vent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

be

Every Order, Resolution, or Vote to which the Concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may necessary (except on a question of Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Poules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill.

Section. 8. The Congress shall have

Power

To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow Money

the United States;

on the credit of

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

To establish an uniform Teule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Mea=

sures;

To provide for the Punishment of

Post roads.

Promote arts and science.

Inferior courts.

Piracies, &c.

Declare war, and

make captures.

Raise armies.

counterfeiting the Securities and current
Coin of the United States;
To establish Post Offices and post

Roads;

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for lim= ited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Na=

tions;

To declare War, grant

ar, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures and Water;

no

on Land

To raise and support Armies, but
Appropriation of Money to that

Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

Navy.

articles of war.

To provide and maintain a Navy; To make Rules for the Government Res, and and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and re= pel Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the Uni= ted States, reserving to the States re= spectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of train= ing the Militia according to the dis= cipline prescribed by Congress;

in

To exercise exclusive Legislation all Cases whatsoever, over such Dis

Call out militia.

Organize

and gov

ern militia

Officers militia.

Exclusive legislation over seat of Government.

trict (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance 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 Legislature of

the State in which the Same shall

be, for the Erection of Forts, Maga= zines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;— And

To make all Laws which shall

be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Depart= ment or Officer thereof.

Section. 9. The Migration or I'm= portation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think