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 ballot To constitute Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court To establish Post & military Roads To establish & 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 counterfeiting 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 and 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. The proportion of direct taxation shall be regulated by the whole number of inhabitants of every description which number shall within ---- years after the first meeting of the Legislature & within the term of every ---- year after be taken in the manner to be prescribed by the Legislature No Tax shall be laid on articles exported from the States--nor capitation tax but in proportion to the Census before directed All Laws regulating Commerce shall require the assent of two thirds of the members present in each house--The United States shall not grant any title of Nobility--The Legislature of the United States shall pass no Law on the subject of Religion, nor touching or abridging the Liberty of the Press nor shall the privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus ever be suspended except in case of Rebellion or Invasion. All acts made by the Legislature of the United States pursuant to this Constitution & all Treaties made under the authority of the United States shall be the supreme Law of the land & all Judges shall be bound to consider them as such in their decisions. 7