Clauses
18 entriesClause 1Allows Congress to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and…Clause 2Allows Congress to borrow money on the credit of the United States. The clause places this borrowing power with Congress, and its…Clause 3Allows Congress to regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. The power covers three separate…Clause 4Allows Congress to establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States. Both…Clause 5Allows Congress to coin money, to regulate the value of that money and of foreign coin, and to fix the standard of…Clause 6Allows Congress to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States. The power covers both…Clause 7Allows Congress to establish post offices and post roads. The clause places the creation of the postal system, including both the offices…Clause 8Allows Congress to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing to authors and inventors, for limited times, the exclusive…Clause 9Allows Congress to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court. The clause gives Congress the power to create courts below the Supreme…Clause 10Allows Congress to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations. The…Clause 11Allows Congress to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. The clause…Clause 12Allows Congress to raise and support armies, but limits any appropriation of money for that use to a term of no longer…Clause 13Allows Congress to provide and maintain a navy. The clause gives Congress power both to create a navy and to keep it…Clause 14Allows Congress to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces. The clause places the rules that…Clause 15Allows Congress to provide for calling forth the militia for three purposes: to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections,…Clause 16Allows Congress to provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia and governing the part employed in the service of the United…Clause 17Allows Congress to exercise exclusive legislation over a district of up to ten miles square that becomes the seat of government through…Clause 18Allows Congress to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution its listed powers and all other powers the Constitution…