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  10                   CONSTITUTION       OF THE
  Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate
and
  House of Representatives may be necessary (exception a question of adjourn-
  ment) 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 Representa-
  tives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of
a bill.
                               SECTION yI.
   The Conuress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts
and
 excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common 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
 offenses against the law of nations;
 To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules con-
 cerning 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 respectively, the appointment of the officers,
 and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed
 by Congress;
 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 con-