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CONSTITUTION STUDY SESSION 4

Article I, Section 9 & 10
Saturday, June 19, 2010

ENUMERATED LEGISLATIVE POWERS

Article 1, Section 9

• Clause 1: Slave Trade
• Clause 2: Habeus Corpus (“The Great Writ”)
• Clause 3: Bill of Attainder and Ex Post Facto Laws (BP escrow?)
• Clause 4: Direct Taxes (cf. 16th Amendment)
• Clause 5: Export Taxation
• Clause 6: Port Preference Clause
• Clause 7: Appropriations Clause (TARP?)
• Clause 8: Emoluments Clause

Article 1, Section 10

• Clause 1: State Treaties, State Coinage, State Bill of Attainder and Ex Post Facto Laws, Obligation Contracts, and State Titles of Nobility
• Clause 2: Import-Export Clause
• Clause 3: Compact Clause

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