house with the Presidents Objections, where if two thirds of the members present also agree to pass it, the same shall become a law — & all bills sent to the President & not returned by him within days shall be laws unless the Legislature by their adjournment prevent their return in which case they shall not be laws
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The Legislature of the United States shall have the power to lay & collect Taxes Duties Imposts & Excises
To regulate Commerce with all nations & among the several states. —
To borrow money & emit bills of Credit
To establish Post Offices
To raise armies
To build & equip Fleets
To pass laws for arming organizing & disciplining the Militia of the United States. —
- To subdue a rebellion in any state on application of its legislature
To coin money & regulate the Value of all coins & fix the Standard of Weights & measures
To provide such Dock Yards & arsenals & erect such fortifications as may be necessary for the United States & to exercise exclusive Jurisdiction therein
To appoint a Treasurer by ballott
To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court
To establish Post & military Roads
To establish and provide for a national University at the Seat of the Government of the United States —
To establish uniform rules of Naturalization
| To provide for the establishment of a Seat of Government for the United States not exceeding miles square in which they shall have exclusive jurisdiction |
To make rules concerning Captures from an Enemy
| To declare the law & Punishment of piracies & felonies at sea & of counterfieting Coin & of all offences against the Laws of Nations |
To call forth the aid of the Militia to execute the laws of the Union enforce treaties suppress insurrections & repel invasions
And to make all laws for carrying the foregoing powers into execution. —
The Legislature of the United States shall have the Power to declare the Punishment of Treason which shall consist only in levying War against the United States or any of them or in adhering to their Enemies. — No person shall be convicted of Treason but by the Testimony of two Witnesses. —
