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c. the "maintenance of harmony and proper intercourse among the States," No. XLI. 291
i. to regulate commerce among the States and the Indian tribes, 292
ii. to coin money, and to regulate its value and that of foreign coin, 294
iii. to provide for the punishment of counterfeiters of coin and public securities, 294
iv. to fix the standard of weights and measures, 294
v. to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, 294
vi. to establish an uniform law of bankruptcy, 296
vii. to establish a rule by which public acts, etc., shall be proved, and with what effect, 296
viii. to establish post-roads and post-offices, 296
d. "miscellaneous powers," XLII. 297
i. the power to pass laws for securing the exclusive right to their works to authors and inventors, 297
ii. the exclusive right of legislation over the seat of the Fœderal government, 297
iii. the punishment of treason against the United States, 299
iv. to admit new States into the Union, 299
v. to dispose of and govern the territories and public property of the United States, 300
vi. to guarantee to every State a republican form of government, 300
vii. to protect the States against invasion, 302
viii. to protect the States against domestic violence, 302
i. the powers and rights of majorities and minorities of the several States discussed, 302
ii. the probability of a general, overpowering insurrection within all the States considered, 304
ix. to assume the payment of outstanding debts of the United States, 305
i. its purpose, 305
ii. objection, that it does not assert the continued validity of debts due to the United States, answered, 305
x. to provide for amendments to the Constitution, 306
xi. the establishment of the new system, when nine States shall have approved it, 306
i. the violation, by this provision, of the Articles of Confederation considered, 307
ii. the relations which will exist between the assenting and the dissenting States of the Union considered, 308