'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 the several States, and with the Indian tribes.
'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 thereof, and of foreign coin, and 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 right 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.