those of the general government, so far as they go. The departments of War, Navy, Post-office, and Mint, do not exist under the state governments, because the states have no power over the subjects in relation to which those departments are erected. The states have a Department of State, the chief object of which is the preservation of the laws and public records, and the issuing of commissions. There is also a Treasurer, or Comptroller, whose business is the receipt, distribution, or safe keeping of the public funds. § 722. From this statement we see, that as national governments, the states have very little to do. All powers of a general nature are vested in the general government. Our work is now ended. If the student of Political Law can find in it little ingenuity and less novelty, he will remember that these are not the characteristics of truth and learning in Constitutions and Jurisprudence: let him seek, rather, for what he may perchance find, the accuracy of the legal historian, and a correct delineation of our political institutions. From the study of these he must ever go forth increased in knowledge, in love of liberty, and the ardour of patriotism. Coining money, right of 244 Compacts, or agreements with another state, or with a for- eign state, forbidden 272, 282 Congress of 1754 7 1765 8 SECT. excises Congress, power of to lay and collect taxes, imposts, and power of to regulate intercourse with the Indian 111-118 120 121-142 tribes 143-145 . power of to establish rules of naturalization 146-153 power of to pass bankrupt laws 154, 155 power of to coin money 156, 157 sures power of to fix the standard of weights and mea- power of to provide for the punishment of coun- terfeiting. power of to establish post-offices and post-roads 159-162 power of to promote the progress of science and the useful arts : power of to constitute tribunals inferior to the Su- 156 158 180 preme Court 184, 185 power of to punish piracy 184-187 power of to declare war, and grant letters of power of to provide for calling forth the militia 199-207 power of to exercise exclusive jurisdiction 208, 209 power of to make all laws necessary and proper to D. Declaration of Rights Democracy of the United States-Representative Ε. SECT. 464 511 79, 81, 83 Elections for Senators and Representatives, time, places, Election returns, and qualifications of members of Con- 72, 73 76, 78 629 286 542-544 234 82 Importation of slaves Imposts and duties, states forbidden to lay without consent 70 228, 229 of Congress 272, 275, 277 |