The Government

             Powers granted to Congress: .
             1. 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.
             2. To borrow money on the credit of the United States.
             3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among several states.
             4. To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States.
             5. To coin money, regulate the value of, and of foreign coin and to fix the standard of weights and measures.
             6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States.
             7. To establish post offices and post roads.
             8. To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries.
             9. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court.
             10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and offenses against the law of nations.
             11. To declare war and make rules concerning captures on land and water.
             12. To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money for that shall be for a longer term than two years.
             13. TO provide and maintain a navy.
             14. To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces.
             15. To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress the insurrections and repel invasions.
             16. To provide for organizing, arming and disciplining the militia and for the 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.
             The Executive Branch.
             The President of the United States, currently George W.