3rd clause.  Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.

Section viii.  Powers granted to Congress.

The Congress shall have power—­

1St clause.  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;

2nd clause.  To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

3rd clause.  To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes;

4Th clause.  To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

5Th clause.  To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

6Th clause.  To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

7Th clause.  To establish post-offices and post-roads;

8Th clause.  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;

9Th clause.  To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

10Th clause.  To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations;

11Th clause.  To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

12Th clause.  To raise and support armies; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

13Th clause.  To provide and maintain a navy;

14Th clause.  To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

15Th clause.  To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions;

16Th clause.  To provide for organising, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for 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;