The Constitution of the United States of America

Article 1: The Legislative Branch

Article I: Section 8

 

 

Section. 8. 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; 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 Offences against the Law of Nations;

To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning 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 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

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.

 

45. The phrase "duties, imposts, and excises" probably refers to

  1. job descriptions and exercise schedules of military training commanders
  2. tariffs on goods imported into the US and sales taxes on certain items
  3. taxes that are charged on goods being transported from one state to another
  4. revenues that state governments must sent to Washington to maintain statehood

 

46. The word "uniform" used in Paragraph 1 of Section 8 is used to mean

  1. "outfit of clothes"
  2. "subject to law"
  3. "the same"
  4. "marginal"

 

47. The power to issue "Savings Bonds" and other bonds is given to the US government by what phrase in Section 8?

  1. "the power to lay and collect taxes . . ."
  2. "to constitute tribunals"
  3. "to borrow money"
  4. "grant Letters of Marque"

 

48. The word "Naturalization" as used in Paragraph 4 probably means

  1. the process of obtaining citizenship
  2. the purity of foods, drugs, or other goods
  3. agriculture as opposed to manufacture
  4. the distillation of strong liquors

 

49. Patents and copyrights are provided for by which phrase?

  1. "Letters of Marque and Reprisal"
  2. "uniform rule of Naturalization"
  3. " all laws which shall be necessary and proper"
  4. "exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;"

 

50. In Paragraph 12 the word "Appropriation" is used to mean . . .

  1. revenue that the government raises through its power to tax
  2. what an army may lawfully take from citizens during times of war or emergency
  3. money set aside for a specific purpose
  4. customary or socially acceptable uses of military might

 

51. The final paragraph in Section 8 allows Congress to pass other laws "necessary and proper" to carrying out the other powers listed in Section 8. Constitutional scholars have nicknamed this final paragraph the . . .

  1. "socialist clause"
  2. "elastic clause"
  3. "abominable clause"
  4. "federal clause"