The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts
and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence
and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts
and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
1. | Continental Congress, 15 Feb. 1786 |
2. | James Madison, Preface to Debates in the, 1787 |
3. | Records of the Federal Convention |
4. | Federal Farmer, no. 3, 10 Oct. 1787 |
5. | An Old Whig, no. 6, Fall 1787 |
6. | James Wilson, Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention, 4 Dec. 1787 |
7. | Brutus, no. 5, 13 Dec. 1787 |
8. | Brutus, no. 6, 27 Dec. 1787 |
9. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 30, 187--93, 28 Dec. 1787 |
10. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 31, 193--98, 1 Jan. 1788 |
11. | Brutus, no. 7, 3 Jan. 1788 |
12. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 34, 209--15, 5 Jan. 1788 |
13. | Alexander Hamilton, Federalist, no. 35, 215--18, 5 Jan. 1788 |
14. | Luther Martin, Genuine Information, 1788 |
15. | Oliver Ellsworth, Connecticut Ratifying Convention, 7 Jan. 1788 |
16. | Debate in Virginia Ratifying Convention, 5--7, 11--12 June 1788 |
17. | James Madison to George Thompson, 29 Jan. 1789 |
18. | James Madison, Import Duties, House of Representatives, 9 Apr. 1789 |
19. | House of Representatives, Amendment to Article 1, SEC. 8, CL. 1, 22 Aug. 1789 |
20. | James Madison, The Bank Bill, House of Representatives, 2 Feb. 1791 |
21. | Alexander Hamilton, Report on Manufactures, 5 Dec. 1791 |
22. | House of Representatives, Post Office Bill, 6--7 Dec. 1791 3, 5 Jan. 1792 |
23. | House of Representatives, Relief to Savannah, 28 Dec. 1796 |
24. | Hylton v. United States |
25. | Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 16 June 1817 |
26. | James Madison to Joseph C. Cabell, 30 Oct. 1828 |
27. | James Madison to Andrew Stevenson, 27 Nov. 1830 |
28. | Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2:§§ 904--25, 927--30, 946--52, 954--70, 972--76, 988, 1833 |
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