Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third ReaderHülshof, John Ludwig
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Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader
Hülshof, John Ludwig
English language -- Textbooks for foreign speakers; Readers
6. "To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and
current coin of the United States."
7. "To establish post-offices and post-roads."
8. "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."
9. "To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court."
10. "To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high
seas, and offences against the law of nations."
11. "To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make
rules concerning captures on land and water."
12. "To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that
use shall be for a longer term than two years."
13. "To provide and maintain a navy."
14. "To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and
naval forces."
15. "To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of
the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions."
16. "To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia,
and for governing such part of them as may be employed 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."
17. "To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over
such district (not exceeding ten miles square), as may, by cession of
particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of
the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authority
over all places, purchased by the consent of the Legislature of the
State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines,
arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings," and
18. "To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying
into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by
this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any
department or officer thereof."
Section IX.--Powers Denied to the United States.
1. "The migration or importation of such persons, as any of the States,
now existing, shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by
the Congress, prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight;
but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten
dollars for each person."
2. "The privilege of the writ of _habeas corpus_ shall not be suspended
unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may
require it."
3. "No bill of attainder, or _ex post facto_ law, shall be passed."
4. "No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in
proportion to the _census_ or enumeration, herein before directed to be
taken."
5. "No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State."
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