to coin money, and regulate weights and measures, 124-125
to punish counterfeiting, 125
to establish post-offices, &c., 126
to secure patents and copy-rights, 126, 127
to define and punish piracies, felonies, &c., 128
to declare war, 128
to issue letters of marque and reprisal, 129
to provide for the national defense, generally, 129,130
to legislate over the District of Columbia, 130
to make all necessary and proper laws, 130, 131
Power of congress to declare punishment of treason, 155
to admit new states, 158
to dispose of and regulate territory and other public property, 159
Powers prohibited to congress, (see prohibitions on congress.)
Premium, defined, 89
Prescription, right by, 183, 184
President and vice-president, how chosen, 139-141
President, powers and duties of, 143-147
vacancy in office, how filled, 142
power of, to fill vacancies, 146
Principal and agent, responsibility of, 202, 205
Printing, public, by whom and how done, 52
Privateering, in what cases authorized, 233, 234
Prizes in war, how disposed of, 234
Prohibition on congress--
to abolish the slave trade, 131, 132
to suspend habeas corpus, 132, 133
to pass bills of attainder, 133
to pass ex post facto laws, 133
in relation to taxation and commerce, 133, 134
to grant titles of nobility, 135
Prohibition on the states--
to form treaties, alliances, &c., 135
to grant letters of marque and reprisal, 136
to coin money, 136
to emit bills of credit, 136
to make anything but coin a tender, 136
to impair the obligation of contracts, 137
to pass bills of attainder or ex post facto laws, 137
to grant titles of nobility, 137
to lay duties, 137, 138
Promissory notes, rules concerning, 207-212
Protective duties, nature of described, 116, 117

Quarantine regulations, 121
Quorum, defined, 42

Rail-roads, by what authority and how made, 84, 85
Ratification of constitution by states, 162
of treaties, 144
Ratio of representation in congress, how ascertained, &c., 105, 106
Real estate, defined, 77
of intestates, descent of, 179, 180
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