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 570 RECOKI)$ OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTIOI COMMITTEE OF STYLE To appoint a Treasurer by joint ballot; To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court; To make rules concerning captures on land and water; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, to punish the counterfeiting of the securities, and current coin of /he United States, and offences against the law of nations; To declare war; and grant letters of marque and re- prisal. To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of mone�'to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. To provide & 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 make laws 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 author- ity of training the militia according to the discipline pre- scribed by the United States. To establish uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies. 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 the Legis- lature become the seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like authcrity over all Places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature of the State, for the erection of Forts, Magazines Arsenals, Dock Yards and other needful buildings. To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to Authors and Inventors the exclu- sive right to their respective writings and discoveries. And to make all laws that 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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