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To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the 

 securities and current coin of the United States : 



To establish post-offices and post-roads : 



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 dis- 

 coveries : 



To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court: 



To define and punish piracies and felonies committed 

 on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations : 



To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, 

 and make rules concerning captures on land and water: 



To raise and support armies ; but no appropriations of 

 money to that use shall be for a longer term than two 

 years : 



To provide and maintain a navy : 



To make rules for the government and regulation of 

 the land and naval forces : 



To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the 

 laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel in- 

 vasions : 



To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining 

 the militia, and for governing such parts 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 : 



To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatso- 

 ever, 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 

 States in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts. 



