Clauses
18 entriesClause 1The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the…Clause 2To borrow Money on the credit of the United States.Clause 3To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.Clause 4To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States.Clause 5To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures.Clause 6To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States.Clause 7To establish Post Offices and post Roads.Clause 8To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to…Clause 9To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court.Clause 10To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations.Clause 11To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water.Clause 12To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years.Clause 13To provide and maintain a Navy.Clause 14To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces.Clause 15To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions.Clause 16To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the…Clause 17To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular…Clause 18To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested…