neral welfare of the
United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform
throughout the United States;

Clause 2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

Clause 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the
several states, and with the Indian tribes;

Clause 4. To establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws
on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the United States;

Clause 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin,
and fix the standard of weights and measures;

Clause 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities
and current coin of the United States;

Clause 7. To establish post-offices and post-roads;

Clause 8. 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;

Clause 9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

Clause 10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the
high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

Clause 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and
make rules concerning captures on land and water;

Clause 12. To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to
that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

Clause 13. To provide and maintain a navy;

Clause 14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land
and naval forces;

Clause 15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws
of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;

Clause 16. 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;

Clause 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 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

Clause 18. To make all laws wh