VII
Sect. 1. The Legislature of the United States
shall have the power to lay and collect taxes, duties,
imposts and excises;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and
among the several States;
To establish an uniform rule of naturalization
throughout the United States;
To coin money;
To regulate the value of foreign coin;
To fix the standard of weights and measures;
To establish Post-offices;
To borrow money, and emit bills on the credit of
the United States;
To appoint a Treasurer by ballot;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme
Court;
To make rules concerning captures on land and
water;
To declare the law and punishment of piracies and
felonies committed on the high seas, and the punishment
of counterfeiting the coin of the United States,
and of offences against the law of nations;
To subdue a rebellion in any State, on the application
of its legislature;
To make war;
To raise armies;
To build and equip fleets;
To call forth the aid of the militia, in order to
execute the laws of the Union, enforce treaties, suppress
insurrections, and repel invasions;
And to make all laws that shall be necessary and
proper for carrying into execution the foregoing
powers, and all other powers vested, by this Constitution,
in the government of the United States, or
in any department or officer thereof;
Sect. 2. Treason against the United States shall
consist only in levying war against the United States,
or any of them; and in adhering to the enemies of
the United States, or any of them. The Legislature
of the United States shall have power to declare the
punishment of treason. No person shall be convicted
of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses.
No attainder of treason shall work corruption
of blood, nor forfeiture, except during the life of
the person attainted.
Sect. 3. The proportions of direct taxation shall
be regulated by the whole number of white and other
free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex and
condition, including those bound to servitude for a
term of years, and three fifths of all other persons
not comprehended in the foregoing description, (except
Indians not paying taxes) which number shall,
within six years after the first meeting of the Legislature,
and within the term of every ten years afterwards,
be taken in such manner as the said Legislature
shall direct.
Sect. 4. No tax or duty shall be laid by the Legislature
on articles exported from any State; nor on
the migration or importation of such persons as the
several States shall think proper to admit; nor shall
Such migration or importation be prohibited.
Sect. 5. No capitation tax shall be laid, unless in
proportion to the Census hereinbefore directed to be
taken.
Sect. 6. No navigation act shall be passed without
the assent of two thirds of the members present
in each House.
Sect. 7. The United States shall not grant any
title of Nobility.
