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RECOl?DS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION S9S COMMITTEE OF STYLE <(c)) To regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several states, and with the Indian tribes. ((d)) To establish an uniform rule of naturalization t4 and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States. ((e)) To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of for- eign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures. ((f)) To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States. ((g)) To establish post offices and post roads. ((i)) 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. ((7')) To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court. ((k)) To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and (*(punish)} offences against the law of nations. ((/)) To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. ((rn)) To raise and support armies: but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. ((n)) To provide and maintain a navy. ((o)} To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces. ((p)) To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions. ((q)) To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be em- ployed 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. ((r)) To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases w, hatso- ever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of

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"naturalization", see Appendix A, CCL.