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Contents.
| Essay. | Page | |
| c. the "maintenance of harmony and proper intercourse among the States," | No. XLI. | 291 |
| i. to regulate commerce among the States and the Indian tribes, | 292 | |
| ii. to coin money, and to regulate its value and that of foreign coin, | 294 | |
| iii. to provide for the punishment of counterfeiters of coin and public securities, | 294 | |
| iv. to fix the standard of weights and measures, | 294 | |
| v. to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, | 294 | |
| vi. to establish an uniform law of bankruptcy, | 296 | |
| vii. to establish a rule by which public acts, etc., shall be proved, and with what effect, | 296 | |
| viii. to establish post-roads and post-offices, | 296 | |
| d. "miscellaneous powers," | XLII. | 297 |
| i. the power to pass laws for securing the exclusive right to their works to authors and inventors, | 297 | |
| ii. the exclusive right of legislation over the seat of the Fœderal government, | 297 | |
| iii. the punishment of treason against the United States, | 299 | |
| iv. to admit new States into the Union, | 299 | |
| v. to dispose of and govern the territories and public property of the United States, | 300 | |
| vi. to guarantee to every State a republican form of government, | 300 | |
| vii. to protect the States against invasion, | 302 | |
| viii. to protect the States against domestic violence, | 302 | |
| i. the powers and rights of majorities and minorities of the several States discussed, | 302 | |
| ii. the probability of a general, overpowering insurrection within all the States considered, | 304 | |
| ix. to assume the payment of outstanding debts of the United States, | 305 | |
| i. its purpose, | 305 | |
| ii. objection, that it does not assert the continued validity of debts due to the United States, answered, | 305 | |
| x. to provide for amendments to the Constitution, | 306 | |
| xi. the establishment of the new system, when nine States shall have approved it, | 306 | |
| i. the violation, by this provision, of the Articles of Confederation considered, | 307 | |
| ii. the relations which will exist between the assenting and the dissenting States of the Union considered, | 308 |
