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ture, commerce, and manufactures" was (as has been before stated) made, and silently abandoned.[1] Congress have already, by a series of laws on this subject, provided for the rights of authors and inventors; and, without question, the exercise of the power has operated as an encouragement to native genius, and to the solid advancement of literature and the arts.
§ 1151. The next power of congress is, "to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court." This clause properly belongs to the third article of the constitution; and will come in review, when we survey the constitution and powers of the judicial department. It will, therefore, be, for the present, passed over.- ↑ Journal of Convention, 261.
