The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts
and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and
general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and
Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Clause 1:
To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
Clause 2:
To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,
and with the Indian Tribes;
Clause 3:
To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the
subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
Clause 4:
To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix
the Standard of Weights and Measures;
Clause 5:
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and
current Coin of the United States;
Clause 6:
To establish Post Offices and post Roads;
Clause 7:
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;
Clause 8:
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
Clause 9:
To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas,
and Offences against the Law of Nations;
Clause 10:
To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules
concerning Captures on Land and Water;
Clause 11:
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use
shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
Clause 12:
To provide and maintain a Navy;
Clause 13:
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval
Forces;
Clause 14:
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the
Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
Clause 15:
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and
for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the
United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of
the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the
discipline prescribed by Congress;
Clause 16:
To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such
District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of
particular States, and the Acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of
the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over
all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in
which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals,
dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;--And
Clause 17:
To make all Laws which 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.
