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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.

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Coining money, right of

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Compacts, or agreements with another state, or with a for-

eign state, forbidden

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Congress of 1754

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excises

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Congress, power of to lay and collect taxes, imposts, and

power of to regulate intercourse with the Indian

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tribes

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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 make internal improvements 162-179

power of to promote the progress of science and

the useful arts

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power of to constitute tribunals inferior to the Su-

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preme Court

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power of to punish piracy

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power of to declare war, and grant letters of

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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

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Declaration of Rights

Democracy of the United States-Representative
Disorderly behaviour, power to punish

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Elections for Senators and Representatives, time, places,
and manner of holding

Election returns, and qualifications of members of Con-

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542-544

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Imposts and duties, states forbidden to lay without consent

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of Congress

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