| Article I Section 8 |
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| 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; |
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| To borrow money on the credit of the United States; |
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| To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and |
| with the Indian Tribes; |
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| To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the |
| subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; |
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| To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the |
| Standard of Weights and Measures; |
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| To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current |
| Coin of the United States; |
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| To establish Post Offices and Post Roads; |
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| To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited |
| Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective |
| Writings and Discoveries; |
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| To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court; |
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| To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and |
| Offenses against the Law of Nations; |
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| To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules |
| concerning Captures on Land and Water; |
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| To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall |
| be for a longer Term than two Years; |
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| To provide and maintain a Navy; |
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| To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; |
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| To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, |
| suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; |
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| 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 United |
| States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the |
| Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the |
| discipline prescribed by Congress; |
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| 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 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, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful |
| Buildings; And |
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| 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 Department or |
| Officer thereof. |
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