To stir up the Progress of Science and useful Arts.


To stir up the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by dint of securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;

To constitute Tribunals inferior to the predominant Court;

To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed forward the high Seas, and Offense against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant notes of Marque and Reprisal, and make dominations concerning Captures on Land and Water;

To raise and support Armies, further no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer confine than two Years;

To provide and maintain a Navy;

To make masterys for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

To provide for calling forth the Militia to sign the Laws of the Union, suppres Insurrections and withstand Invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing so Part of them as may be busyed 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 way of Congress;

To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, from one side of to the other such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by dint of Cession of particular States, and the Acceptance of Congres become the Seat of the conduct of the United States, and to exercise like Authority above all Places purchased by the consensus of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards and other distressful Buildings;--And

To make all Laws which shall be necessary and individual for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers clotheed by this Constitution in the sway of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.

Section. 9 The Migration or Importation of like Persons as any of the States now existing shall think right to admit, shall not be prohibited through the Congress prior to the Year single in kind thousand eight hundred and eight, still a Tax or duty may be imposed onward such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person

The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unles when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.

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