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Page 30 - 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 government of the United States...
Page 30 - To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations. 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
Page 29 - States; 3 To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; 4 To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures...
Page 30 - 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...
Page 29 - The Congress shall have Power 1 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...
Page 109 - Legislature, and who shall receive for their services a compensation to be fixed by law.
Page 27 - Government, and to approve or disapprove the accounts of its disbursement. (8) To grant subsidies, to be paid out of the national treasury, to those Provinces whose revenues, according to their budgets, are insufficient to meet their ordinary expenses.
Page 77 - Nation the same civil rights as are vested in the citizens; they shall be allowed to engage in industrial, commercial, and professional occupations; to own, hold, and sell real estate; to navigate the rivers and travel along...
Page 105 - ... lands, the introduction and establishment of new industries, the importation of foreign capital, and the exploration of the interior rivers, by protective laws and by temporary concessions of privileges and the offering of awards.
Page 79 - ... of active military operations, where war really prevails, there is a necessity to furnish a substitute for the civil authority, thus overthrown, to preserve the safety of the army and society ; and as no power is left but the military, it is allowed to govern by martial rule until the laws can have their free course. As necessity creates the rule, so it limits its duration ; for, if this government is continued after the courts are reinstated, it is a gKoss usurpation of power. Martial rule can...