| Lay and collect taxes | Establish Post Offices |
| Pay Debts | Provide Patents |
| Provide for Defence and general Welfare | Constitute Inferior Courts |
| Borrow Money | Define and punish Piracies |
| Regulate commerce including intra-state | Declare War |
| Establish uniform rules for Naturalization | Raise and Support Armies |
| Establish uniform rules for Bankruptcies | Provide a Navy |
| Coin Money | Make rules for the government of Armed Forces |
| Fix Weights and Measures | Call forth the militia |
| Punish Counterfeiting of Securities and Coin |
Organize, arm and discipline the Militia, with states retaining choice of Officers, and training.
Govern the District of Columbia and any properties purchased from the states for Federal Needs.
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,