tate policy until experience
had shown the utter fallacy of both, they met in convention and passed
the present Constitution, and formed themselves into ONE NATION. This
Constitution, compact, copartnership, confederation, combination, or
whatever it may be called, was and is the written foundation
(voluntarily made) on which the NATION is built and maintained.

The charter, instrument, or Constitution, defines, by common consent and
mutual agreement of the parties voluntarily forming it, the powers,
rights, and duties of the national government growing out of and based
on this Constitution. Among the powers thus delegated to the National or
Federal Government, and to be used by the legislative authority thereof,
are the following:

'ARTICLE I.--SECTION 8.

'The Congress shall have power--

'1. To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay
the debts, and provide for the common defense and general welfare
of the United States; but all duties, imposts, and excises shall
be uniform throughout the United States.

'2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States.

'3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the
several States, and with the Indian tribes.

'4. To establish a 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.

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

'7. To establish post-offices and post-roads.

'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.

'9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.

'10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the
high seas, and offenses 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.

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

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