CHAPTER IX.
Report of the Committee of Detail.—Construction of the Legislature.—Time and Place of its Meeting.
| Power confided to the Committee of Detail | [193] |
| Their Draft of a Constitution | [194] |
| Right of Suffrage | [194] |
| Foreign-born Inhabitants | [195-196] |
| Immigration to be encouraged | [197] |
| Qualifications for Voting | [198-202] |
| Power of Naturalization | [199] |
| Qualifications for Office | [203-210] |
| Spirit of the Constitution | [211] |
| Ratio of Representation | [212-214] |
| Money Bills | [215-222] |
| Qualifications of Senators | [223], [224] |
| Number of Senators | [224-226] |
| Method of Voting in the Senate | [226-228] |
| Vacancies in the Senate and House | [229] |
| Powers of the Senate | [229-240] |
| Senatorial Term | [240-242] |
| Disqualifications of Members of both Branches | [242] et seq. |
| Parliamentary Corruption | [242-244] |
| Executive Influence | [244-256] |
| Time and Place for Elections | [257] |
| Pay of Members | [258], [259] |
| Impeachments | [260-262] |
| Quorum of each House | [262] |
| Separate Powers of each House | [262-263] |
| President of the Senate | [263] |
| Enactment of Laws | [264] |
| President's Negative | [265-268] |
| Seat of Government | [268-277] |
| Session of Congress | [277], [278] |
CHAPTER X.
Report of the Committee of Detail, continued.— The Powers of Congress.—The Grand Compromises of the Constitution respecting Commerce, Exports, and the Slave-Trade.
| General Principles of the Powers of Legislation | [279], [280] |
| Limitations | [280] |
| Exports and the Slave-Trade | [281] |
| Fitness and Unfitness of a Tax on Exports | [282] |
| Variety in the Exports of the United States | [283] |
| Impracticability of such a Tax | [284] |
| The Slave-Trade Controversy | [285] et seq. |
| How adjusted | [289] et seq. |
| Restrictions on the Revenue and Commercial Powers | [289] |
| Regulation of Commerce | [291] et seq. |
| Settlement of the Revenue and Commercial Powers | [295] et seq. |
| Proposition of Compromise | [301] |
| Arrangement of the Compromise | [303] |
| Value of the Compromise | [307] |
| Benefits of the Revenue and Commercial Powers | [309] |
CHAPTER XI.
Report of the Committee of Detail, continued.— The Remaining Powers of Congress.—Restraints upon Congress and upon the States.
| Purpose of the Revenue Power | [318-322] |
| Preference of Ports prohibited | [323], [324] |
| Duties, &c. to be equal | [325] |
| Commerce with the Indian Tribes | [325-328] |
| Uniform Rule of Naturalization | [328] |
| Coining and Regulating Value of Money | [328] |
| Standard of Weights and Measures | [328] |
| Post-Offices and Post-Roads | [328] |
| Power to borrow Money | [328-330] |
| Tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court | [330] |
| Rules as to Captures | [330] |
| Offences against the Law of Nations | [331] |
| Counterfeiting | [332] |
| War Power | [332] |
| Raising and supporting Armies | [333] |
| Navy | [334] |
| Power over the Militia | [334-338] |
| Necessary and proper Laws to execute the Specific Powers | [338] |
| Patents and Copyrights | [339] |
| Power over Territories | [341-358] |
| Admission of New States | [358] |
| Restraints upon Congress | [359] |
| Suspension of the habeas corpus | [359] |
| Bills of Attainder | [360] |
| Ex post facto Laws | [360] et seq. |
| Titles of Nobility | [362] |
| Gifts and Emoluments from foreign Princes | [362] |
| Restraints upon the States | [362] et seq. |
| Obligation of Contracts | [365] |
| State Imposts | [369] |
| Tonnage Duties | [370] |
| Other Restraints | [371] |
CHAPTER XII.