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Conservative Beacon
“Any act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.”
U.S. Supreme Court - 1803
Conservative Beacon
“Any act of the legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void.”
U.S. Supreme Court - 1803
| Constitution of the United States of America Article I: Legislative Branch |
Article I, Section 8: Enumerated Powers of Congress (Comment)
1.8.1 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts
and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general
Welfare of the United States;
1.8.2 but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United
States;
1.8.3 To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
1.8.4 To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,
and with the Indian Tribes;
1.8.5 To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the
subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
1.8.6 To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the
Standard of Weights and Measures;
1.8.7 To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current
Coin of the United States;
1.8.8 To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
1.8.9 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;
1.8.10 To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
1.8.11 To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas,
and Offences against the Law of Nations;
1.8.12 To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules
concerning Captures on Land and Water;
1.8.13 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use
shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
1.8.14 To provide and maintain a Navy;
1.8.15 To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval
Forces;
1.8.16 To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
1.8.17 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;
1.8.18 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, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–
And
1.8.19 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.
1.8.1 The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts
and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defense and general
Welfare of the United States;
1.8.2 but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United
States;
1.8.3 To borrow Money on the credit of the United States;
1.8.4 To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,
and with the Indian Tribes;
1.8.5 To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the
subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
1.8.6 To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the
Standard of Weights and Measures;
1.8.7 To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current
Coin of the United States;
1.8.8 To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
1.8.9 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;
1.8.10 To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
1.8.11 To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas,
and Offences against the Law of Nations;
1.8.12 To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules
concerning Captures on Land and Water;
1.8.13 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use
shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
1.8.14 To provide and maintain a Navy;
1.8.15 To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval
Forces;
1.8.16 To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union,
suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
1.8.17 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;
1.8.18 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, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;–
And
1.8.19 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.
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