borrow money, 114
                  to regulate commerce, 114-119
                  in relation to naturalization and bankruptcy, 122-124
                  to coin money, and regulate weights and measures, 124-125
                  to punish counterfeiting, 125
                  to establish post-offices, &c., 126
                  to secure patents and copy-rights, 126, 127
                  to define and punish piracies, felonies, &c., 128
                  to declare war, 128
                  to issue letters of marque and reprisal, 129
                  to provide for the national defense, generally, 129,130
                  to legislate over the District of Columbia, 130
                  to make all necessary and proper laws, 130, 131
Power of congress to declare punishment of treason, 155
                  to admit new states, 158
                  to dispose of and regulate territory and other public property, 159
Powers prohibited to congress, (see prohibitions on congress.)
Premium, defined, 89
Prescription, right by, 183, 184
President and vice-president, how chosen, 139-141
President, powers and duties of, 143-147
           vacancy in office, how filled, 142
           power of, to fill vacancies, 146
Principal and agent, responsibility of, 202, 205
Printing, public, by whom and how done, 52
Privateering, in what cases authorized, 233, 234
Prizes in war, how disposed of, 234
Prohibition on congress—­
            to abolish the slave trade, 131, 132
            to suspend habeas corpus, 132, 133
            to pass bills of attainder, 133
            to pass ex post facto laws, 133
            in relation to taxation and commerce, 133, 134
            to grant titles of nobility, 135
Prohibition on the states—­
            to form treaties, alliances, &c., 135
            to grant letters of marque and reprisal, 136
            to coin money, 136
            to emit bills of credit, 136
            to make anything but coin a tender, 136
            to impair the obligation of contracts, 137
            to pass bills of attainder or ex post facto laws, 137
            to grant titles of nobility, 137
            to lay duties, 137, 138
Promissory notes, rules concerning, 207-212
Protective duties, nature of described, 116, 117

Quarantine regulations, 121
Quorum, defined, 42

Rail-roads, by what authority and how made, 84, 85
Ratification of constitution by states, 162
             of treaties, 144
Ratio of representation in congress, how ascertained, &c., 105, 106
Real estate, defined, 77
             of intestates, descent of, 179, 180
Rebellion, defined, 90, 91
Recognizance, defined, 69
Recorder or register, county, duties of, 55
Records, public, proving and effect of, 156, 157
Registry of vessels, 120