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Excerpt from The Political Manual: Being a Complete View of the Theory and Practice of the General and State Governments of the United States, Adapted to the Use of Colleges, Academies, and Schools
Section Congress, power of, to lay and collect taxes, imposts, and excises. 111 - 119 to borrow money. 120 to regulate commerce 121 - 142 to regulate intercourse with the Indian tribes 143 - 145 to establish rules of naturalization 146 - 153 to pass bankrupt laws 154, 155 to coin money 156, 157 to fix the standard of weights and measures 156 to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting. 158 to establish post - Offices and post - roads 159 - 162 to make internal improvements. 162 - 179 to promote the progress of science and the useful arts 180 - 183 to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court 184, 185 to punish piracy 184 - 187 to declare war and grant letters of marque. 190 - 192 to make rules concerning captures 190, 193 to raise and support armies. 194, 195 to provide for a navy 196 to make rules for the government of the land and naval forces 197 - 199 to provide for calling forth the militia 200 - 208 to exercise exclusive jurisdiction. 211 - 213 to make all laws necessary and proper to carry these powers into execution to admit new states to govern territories Committee of Ways and Means Credentials, what duties of. Confederation, articles of Citizens of each state, privileges of Constitution of the United States, at large - p. 287. How formed. Articles of the supreme law. Preambleof construction of proceeds from the people acts upon individuals and states.
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