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§ 1150. In the first draft of the constitution the clause is not to be found; but the subject was referred to a committee, (among other propositions,) whose report was accepted, and gave the clause in the very form, in which it now stands in the constitution.10 A more extensive proposition, “to establish public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, and manufactures” was (as has been before stated) made, and silently abandoned.11 Congress have already, by a series of laws on this subject, provided for the rights of authors and inventors; and, without question, the exercise of the power has operated as an encouragement to native genius, and to the solid advancement of literature and the arts.
§ 1151. The next power of congress is, “to constitute tribunals inferiour to the Supreme Court.” This clause properly belongs to the third article of the constitution; and will come in review, when we survey the constitution and powers of the judicial department. It will, therefore, be, for the present, passed over.
1. 2 Black. Comm. 406, 407, and Christian’s note, (5); 4 Burr. R. 2303; Rawle on Const. ch. 9, p. 105, 106; 2 Kent’s Comm. Lect. 36, p. 306, 307, 314, 315.
2. 2 Black. Comm. 407, and Christian’s note, (8); 4 Black. Comm. 159; 2 Kent’s Comm. Lect 36, p. 299 to 306.
3. The Federalist, No. 43.
4. 2 Kent’s Comm. Lect. 36, p 298, 299.
5. The Federalist, No. 43; See also 1 Tuck. Black. Comm. App. 265, 266; Rawle on Const. ch. 9, p. 105, 106; See Hamilton’s Report on Manufactures, § 8, p. 235, etc.
6. Hamilton’s Rep. on Manufactures, § 8, p. 235, 236.
7. Evans v. Eaton. 3 Wheat. R. 454, 513.
8. 1 Tuck. Black. Comm. App. 265, 266; Livingston v. Van Ingen, 9 John. R. 507.
9. Livingston v. Van Ingen, 9 John. R. 507; Sergeant on Const. ch. 28, [ch. 39] 10. Journ. of Convention, 260, 327, 328, 329.
11. Journal of Convention, 261.

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