The writings of James Madison, comprising his public papers and his private correspondence, including numerous letters and documents now for the first time printed. |
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The Legislature of the United States shall have
the power to lay & collect Taxes Duties Imposts &
excises
To regulate Commerce with all nations & among
the several States.
To borrow money & emit bills of Credit
To establish Post offices.
To raise armies
To build & equip Fleets
To pass laws for arming organizing & disciplining
the Militia of the United States
To subdue a rebellion in any State on application
of its legislature
To coin money & regulate the Value of all coins
& fix the Standard of Weights & measures
To provide such Dock Yards & arsenals & erect
such fortifications as may be necessary for the
United States & to exercise exclusive Jurisdiction
therein
To appoint a Treasurer by ballot
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme
Court
To establish Post & military Roads
To establish & provide for a national University
at the Seat of the Government of the United States
To establish uniform rules of Naturalization
To provide for the establishment of a Seat of Government
for the United States not exceeding———
miles square in which they shall have exclusive
jurisdiction
To make rules concerning Captures from an Enemy
To declare the law & Punishment of piracies &
felonies at sea & of counterfeiting Coin & of all
offences against the Laws of Nations
To call forth the aid of the Militia to execute the
laws of the Union enforce treaties suppress insurrections
and repel invasions
And to make all laws for carrying the foregoing
powers into execution.
The Legislature of the United States shall have
the Power to declare the Punishment of Treason
which shall consist only in levying War against the
United States or any of them or in adhering to their
Enemies. No person shall be convicted of Treason
but by the testimony of two witnesses.
The proportion of direct taxation shall be regulated
by the whole number of inhabitants of every
description which number shall within——— years
after the first meeting of the Legislature & within
the term of every——— year after be taken in the
manner to be prescribed by the legislature
No Tax shall be laid on articles exported from
the States—nor capitation tax but in proportion to
the Census before directed
All Laws regulating Commerce shall require the
assent of two thirds of the members present in each
house—The United States shall not grant any title
of Nobility—The Legislature of the United States
shall pass no Law on the subject of Religion, nor
touching or abridging the Liberty of the Press nor
be suspended except in case of Rebellion or Invasion.
All acts made by the Legislature of the United
States pursuant to this Constitution & all Treaties
made under the authority of the United States shall
be the supreme Law of the land & all Judges shall
be bound to consider them as such in their decisions.
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