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be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall
be entered on the journal of each house respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Pre
sident within ten days. (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall
be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its
return, in which case it shall not be a law.
Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Represen
tatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President
of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or, being
disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, ac
cording to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.
Sect. 8. The Congress shall have power
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the com
mon defence and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be
uniform throughout the United States ;
To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian
tribes;
To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies
throughout the United States;
To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights
and measures .
To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United
States;
To establish post offices and post roads;
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;
To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court;
To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the
law of nations;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on
land and water;
To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer
term than two years;
To provide and maintain a navy;
To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;
To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections
and repel invasions ;
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 respective
ly, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the dis
cipline prescribed by Congre ss;
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 overall places pur
chased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of
forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings;—And
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.
Sect. 9. 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 dol
lars for each person.
The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebelli
on or invasion the public safety may require it .
No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.
No capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration
herein before directed to be taken.
No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any state. No preference shall be given
by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one state over those of another; nor shall
vessels bound to, or from, one state, be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law;
and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be
published from time to time.
No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: —And no person holding any office of
profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress; accept of any present, emo
lument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.
Sect. 10. No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque
and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender
in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obliga
tion of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
No state shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports,
except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws; and the net produce of
all duties and imposts, laid by any state on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the Treasury
of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and controul of the Congress.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of
war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a forei gn pow
er, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
11.I I.
Sect. 1. The executive power shall be vested in a president of the United States of America. He
shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the vice-president, chosen for
the same term, be elected as follows.
Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of elec
tors, equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled
in the Congress: but no senator or representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under
the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
The electors shall meet in their respective states, and vote by ballot for two persons, of whom one
at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves. And they shall make a list of
all the persons voted for, and of the number of votes for each; which list they shall sign and certi
fy, and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the president
of the senate. The president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representa
tives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted. The person having the great
est number of votes shall be the president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors
appointed; and if there be more than one who have such majority, and have an equal number of
votes, then the house of representatives shall immediately chuse by ballot one of them for president;
and if no person have a majority, then from the five highest on the list the said house shall in like
manner chuse the president. But in chusing the president, the votes shall be taken by states,
the representation from each state having one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a
member or members from two-thirds of the states, and a majority of all the states shall be necessary
to a choice. In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest num
ber of votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more
who have equal votes, the senate shall chuse from them by ballot the vice-president,
The Congress may determine the time of chusing the electors, and the day on which they
shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.