THE CENTURY BOOK OF FACTS. 



propriation of money to that use shall be for a 

 longer term than two years. 



13. To provide and maintain a navy. 



14. To make rules for the government and 

 regulation of the land and naval forces. 



15. To provide for calling forth the militia 

 to execute the laws of the Union, suppress in- 

 surrections, and repel invasions. 



16. 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 offi- 

 cers, and the authority of training the militia 

 according to the discipline prescribed by 

 Congress. 



17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all 

 cases whatsoever over such district (not ex- 

 ceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession 

 of particular States and the acceptance of 

 Congress, become the seat of 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, dry docks, and other needful 

 buildings. 



18. To make all laws which shall be neces- 

 sary 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. 



SECTION IX. 1. The migration or impor- 

 tation of such persons as any of the States 

 now existing shall think proper to admit shall 

 not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the 

 year one thousand eight hundred and eight, 

 but a tax or duty may be imposed on such im- 

 portation, not exceeding ten dollars for each 

 person. 



2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus 

 shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of 

 rebellion or invasion the public safety may re- 

 quire it. 



3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law 

 shall be passed. 



4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be 

 laid, unless in proportion to the census or 

 enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken. 



5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles 

 exported from any State. 



6. No preference shall be given by any regu- 

 lation of commerce or revenue to the ports of 

 one State over those of another, nor shall ves- 

 sels bound to or from one State be obliged to 

 enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 



7. No money shall be drawn from the Treas- 

 ury but in consequence of appropriations made 

 by law ; and a regular statement and account 



of the receipts and expenditures of all public 

 money shall be published from time to time. 



8. No title of nobility shall be granted by 

 the United States. And no person holding 

 any office of profit or trust under them shall, 

 without the consent of the Congress, accept of 

 any present, emolument, office, or title of any 

 kind whatever from any king, prince, or for- 

 eign state. 



SECTION X. 1. No State shall enter into 

 any treaty, alliance, or confederation, grant 

 letters of marque and reprisal, coin money, 

 emit bills of credit, make anything but gold 

 and silver coin a tender in payment of debts, 

 pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, 

 or law impairing the obligation of contracts, 

 .or grant any title of nobility. 



2. No State shall, without the consent of 

 the Congress, lay any impost or duties on im- 

 ports or exports, except what may be absolutely 

 necessary for executing its inspection laws, 

 and the net produce of all duties and imposts, 

 laid by any State on imports or exports, shall 

 be for the use of the Treasury of the United 

 States ; and all such laws shall be subject to 

 the revision and control of the Congress. 



3. No State shall, without the consent of 

 Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops 

 or ships of war in time of peace, enter into 

 any agreement or compact with another State, 

 or with a foreign power, or engage in war, un- 

 less actually invaded, or in such imminent 

 danger as will not admit of delay. 



ARTICLE II. 



SECTION I. 1. The Executive power shall 

 be vested in a President of the United States 

 of America. He shall hold his office during 

 the term of four years, and, together with the 

 Vice-President, chosen for the same term, be 

 elected as follows : 



2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner 

 as the Legislature thereof may direct, a num- 

 ber of electors, equal to the whole number of 

 Senators and Representatives to which the 

 State may be entitled in the Congress ; but no 

 Senator or Representative or person holding 

 an office of trust or profit under the United 

 States shall be appointed an elector. 



3. [The electors shall meet in their respec 

 tive States and vote by ballot for two persons, 

 of whom one at least shall not be an inhabi- 

 tant of the same State with themselves. And 

 they shall make a list of all the persons voted 

 for, and of the number of votes for each, which 

 list they shall sign and certify and transmit, 

 sealed, to the seat of the government of the 

 United States, directed to the President of the 

 Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in 

 the presence of the Senate and House of Rep- 



