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Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Come Out of Babylon


by Anna Von Reitz

I have tried and tried and tried to get this point across: there are two governments in America, one British, one American.  There are two populaces in America---- one of British Subjects, one of American State nationals. 

This is the way it is and it is the way it has always been.  For all those who want proof in the founding documents go to www.freesovereignandindependent.com and look at what the Definitive Treaty of Peace (1783) which ended the Revolutionary War reveals: two populations. One population known as the "free, sovereign, and independent people of the United States" and the other known as "inhabitants"---- British Subjects left here to provide "essential government services." 

Look at Article IV of the actual Constitution.  There it is again, the provision of essential government services by federal employees.


The original United States (Trading Company) which provided these nineteen enumerated services was bankrupted by Lincoln in 1863.  That original company operated on the land and under the law of the land, but it was operated by British Subjects called "United States Citizens" even then. 

When the open hostilities of the War of Secession ended on the land jurisdiction, the filthy British Monarchs continued to wage war in the international jurisdiction of the sea against the "rebels" and they continued to use the fanciful excuse that there were still "rebels" to prosecute as a smoke screen to attack and prosecute and fleece and defraud average, law-abiding, peaceful Americans for the next 150 years.

Most people would stare at you as if you were crazy if you suggested that the American Civil War is ongoing even now, but so it is and has been.  We have been at constant "war" since 1863, because these British buggers and their sycophants acting as the "Congress" --- a Board of Directors of the corporations they have fostered as successors to the original constitution's commercial services contract--- have never declared an official peace treaty ending the Civil War. 

You can look all day long for a month of Sundays for a Peace Treaty ending the Civil War and you will find that what I am telling you is true.  The Civil War never officially ended and the British rats have used that as an excuse to attack and plunder innocent American civilians ever since.

After Lincoln bankrupted the United States (Trading Company) the Brits and their supporters in this country spawned a new governmental services corporation called, "The United States of America, Inc." which ran from 1868 to 1907 when it was purchased by a consortium of mostly European banks calling themselves the "Federal Reserve". 

The Federal Reserve acquired "The United States of America, Inc." and bankrupted it in turn, giving rise to the First World War.  They changed the name slightly and booted up another version calling it "the United States of America, Inc." and ran it into the ground and bankrupted it in 1933, causing the Second World War. 

During the Second World War and using it as an excuse, pleading the need to "harness" the vast resources of America and the American People "for the War Effort" the Brits and their Cronies in America ---- all British Subjects, all "United States Citizens" or "citizens of the United States", conspired to set up a system to enslave Americans and use our assets as collateral backing their debts. 

Here are a couple good examples of it. 

During the Second World War, patriotic Americans were urged to donate a portion of their earnings for the "War Effort"---- and millions upon millions dutifully signed up and paid the "Victory Tax"--- a "voluntarily income tax" on their earnings.  This tax was supposed to automatically sunset upon the end of hostilities, but the legislation creating it had no specific ending date. 

As a result, when the war ended in 1945, the tax system kept right on chugging and neither the British King nor his loyal Subjects running the UNITED STATES, INC.  bothered to put an end date on the "Victory Tax" and release all those patriotic Americans from the obligation to keep on paying.  Instead, they renamed it the "Federal Income Tax" and booted up the IRS to become the most ferocious private Bill Collection Agency on earth, deliberately gave people the idea that the IRS was associated with our lawful government, and used it to jail and fine and tax millions of Americans who never owed them a dime.

Worse yet was the means devised to enforce all this rot, including the draft, which was all predicated on the totally false idea that all the Americans knowingly and willingly and voluntarily agreed to be British Subjects---- "United States Citizens" and/or "citizens of the United States". 

They mischaracterized and deliberately, self-interestedly misidentified hundreds of millions of innocent Americans as British Subjects---- a crime of political genocide recognized by the Geneva Conventions as a death penalty war crime.  They used various means of false registrations and disinformation to coerce the victims and especially the victim's Mothers to provide false statements to the effect that all these Americans were "United States Citizens" or "citizens of the United States" instead of being what they are and always were: Americans known as American State nationals---- Ohioans, Virginians, Californians, Texans, Wisconsinites, and so on.

It has been the biggest human trafficking crime in world history, resulting in the press ganging of hundreds of millions of Americans over the course of one hundred and fifty years.  It has been the biggest tax crime, the biggest racketeering and identity theft scheme, the biggest counterfeiting racket, the biggest credit fraud scheme, the biggest unlawful conversion theft, the biggest securities fraud, and the most tortuous copyright infringement ever conceived.

And it was brought to you by the Lords of the Admiralty, the British Monarchs, and the "United States Citizens" responsible for running the "federal government"---- a corporation operated out of the District of Columbia for the purpose of providing the States of America with essential governmental services under commercial services contract.

Now, some people, mainly British Subjects---foreign politicians masquerading as if they "represent" you and Bar Attorneys up to their ears in it----would like to present this circumstance as a political issue, but it isn't.  It's a matter of crime practiced against their employers, benefactors, and allies for 150 years and it is finally coming to an end. 

Now that you have this firmly in mind I want to raise a flag of caution and promote a bit of understanding.  All this harm to us has been allowed under The Constitution----except for the semantic deceits and constructive frauds that have been used as a means to promote and prolong this circumstance.  Under The Constitution, the "Congress" has been allowed to exist and to operate its affairs as plenary oligarchs operating the government of the District of Columbia however they see fit.

It is a foreign corporate government with respect to us.  And instead of operating it as it always should have been, the British Monarchs have instead acted in Breach of Trust and treaty and used it to wage war and practice crime and fraud against us and our lawful government.  The British Government operating a backdoor fraud scheme against us under the pretense of being our friends and Allies has done us more harm than any enemy entering through the front door could ever do and the members of "Congress" misrepresenting themselves as our "representatives" and fiduciary agents have done still more harm to millions of innocent, peaceful, trusting Americans who have fought their wars and paid their debts since 1863.

What you are looking at is a mammoth international crime syndicate, fostered by international banks and European trading companies.  The British Government started it and milked it all the way through the Second World War, but in 1944, the French Government had to get in on the act, too.  They chartered the IMF, and the IMF chartered the UNITED STATES, INC., yet another "assumed successor" to the commercial services contract to provide the nineteen enumerated services required by the original Constitution.

Here is the Take Home Lesson for today: none of this, absolutely none of it, has anything to do with you or with your lawful government owed the land jurisdiction of the United States.  The name of this country is "States of America" and our fifty nations on the land hold the land jurisdiction in trust for the people known variously as Californians and New Yorkers and North Dakotans and so on.  The States of America are alive and well and bringing claim forward as the Priority Creditors of the foreign bankrupt corporations.


Stand up and be counted as members of the free, sovereign, and independent people of the United States, living people not corporations, American State nationals, not "United States Citizens" and not "citizens of the United States".  Send your Acts of Expatriation to the State Secretary of State and the Attorney General making it clear that you do not voluntarily assume any such foreign political status and that you have been mischaracterized and defrauded.
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23 comments:

  1. Stand up and be counted as members of the free, sovereign, and independent people of the United States, living people not corporations, American State nationals, not "United States Citizens" and not "citizens of the United States". Send your Acts of Expatriation to the State Secretary of State and the Attorney General making it clear that you do not voluntarily assume any such foreign political status and that you have been mischaracterized and defrauded.

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    1. This is a good start but not good enough in any way whatsoever until dumbed downed sissy boy America takes up arms under the second amendment and goes to war against the domestic enemy that has infiltrated America within as this is the only way the domestic enemy can destroy America.

      The domestic enemy is fully aware that if he attacks America and declares war on America he will be decimated in an hours time.

      No one can declare war on America nor attack America.
      They will be decimated on an hours time therefore the only way to defeat America is from within, slow and subtle by dumbing down the American citizen thigh media and church, emasculating the American male making him an obedient sissy boy through a barrage of rules and regulations to confuse create chaos and just make it up out of thin air as required like banning The Lord's Prayer in public schools in 1960 and deliberately misleading Americans into giving up their gold in 1933 and allowing the illuminati bank to take over in 1913, putting forth the war measures act in 1933 still in effect and the Patriot Act in 2001 still ineffect.

      Only a dumbed down sissy boy nation would allow these things to take place and sit there like a bump on a log letting it happen and doing nothing g about it.

      This is what happens when you sell out and turn your back on God.
      The wrath of Gid is upon America because the dumbed down sissy boy emasculated feminized Ametican male is too stupid and too much of a coward to take up arms and defend himself.

      You have all the power and yet you allow yourself to be stupid thinking you have nothing when it is the enemy that has nothing except to use fear and intimidation tactics agsinnst the all powerful America otherwise if the enemy had any power whatsoever it would attack and declare war on Ametica and get the job done a long time ago. No one can defeat America with a direct attack and declaration if war. The slow and subtle dumbing down of America from within is the only way.
      It is working very nicely.
      Ametica is hanging on by a thread.
      Just a little more dumbing down and emasculation of the Ametican male is all that is required.

      Are you going to let the enemy win the war dumbed down sissy boy emasculated feminized cowardly Ametican male, better ask your wife if it's OK to do do. We surely do not want to offend anyone and have the neighbors talking about us or get fired from our job or get kicked out of the social club whichcraft infiltrated pyukes in the pulpit non Bible preaching church that we attend every Sunday. What would people say?

      I am Canadian and I know more about how things work in America then 95pet cent of Ameticans. Shameful.

      How do I know, ... I listen to nich market radio and read nich market articles from Ametican Baptist Pastors that preach the truth based on the word of God and not their own opinion and that are not afraid to speak out and keep speaking out at any cost.

      It is the same in Canada as in Ametica.
      If God had not have lead me to this Ametican nich market I would be totally lost and dumbed down just like the Ametican sissy boy feminized emasculated cowardly Ametican male.


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    2. Here is the remedy we have been searching for the whole time....12USC411 and sec. 16 of the Federal Reserve Act. We always had the right to "DEMAND" Lawful money by simply referencing it to 12USC411 without endorsing private credit, like we have always been taught to do. Please go to the site and read it.....
      http://sovereignwarriors.ning.com/profiles/comment/list?attachedToType=User&attachedTo=1ma6xqyac7fjz&commentId=6194679%3AComment%3A312625&xgsi=1&xg_source=msg_com_profile

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    3. Sorry. Heres the link.
      https://keystoliberty2.wordpress.com/tag/title-12-section-411/

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    4. People have been making stamps that say the following..."Redeem in lawful money, persuant to 12USC411 John James Doe dba JOHN JAMES DOE. They even stamp every FRN with the same stamp, since a FRN can also be used to be a "United States Note" carrying no liability with it. They use the stamp for everthing, all checks, drafts, and bills(aka FRN). You can use it on your signiture card at the bank, so the IRS and FTB can never levy your account. And the site also tells you where to get a certified copy of the law at the county recorders office if any bank refuses to give you an account because of that verbage on your signiture card. Anything you deposit in the bank with that demand on it cannot be fractionalized by the bank. I got this info from another site called..."soverign warriors.com" run by Jaro.

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    5. Only congress can print money and no one else certainly not the Fed Res illegal entity that bought and paid for Woodro Wilson in 1913.
      FDR sold out America in 1933.
      Bush Jr. Sold out Amerixa in 2001.
      Obama has decimated America setting it up for Hilary to destroy it outright.
      Rules won't do you any good.
      You cannot fight back with rules. They will just change them.
      Use the second amendment with Gods blessing. That is all you can do.
      If the U.S. Marshall will not arrest Ovama for treason, then follow him home after work and shoot him. This is all you can do.




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    6. People have been making stamps that say the following..."Redeem in lawful money, persuant to 12USC411 John James Doe dba JOHN JAMES DOE. They even stamp every FRN with the same stamp, since a FRN can also be used to be a "United States Note" carrying no liability with it. They use the stamp for everthing, all checks, drafts, and bills(aka FRN). You can use it on your signiture card at the bank, so the IRS and FTB can never levy your account. And the site also tells you where to get a certified copy of the law at the county recorders office if any bank refuses to give you an account because of that verbage on your signiture card. Anything you deposit in the bank with that demand on it cannot be fractionalized by the bank. I got this info from another site called..."soverign warriors.com" run by Jaro.

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  2. You van get them on violation of oaths too easy cause of action

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  3. How can one Expatriate from this soul enslaving incubus Corp known as the USA while employing 30 staff members in a family owned (heavy sigh) S Corp? I cannot in all good conscience, toss them to the curb, to establish my own sovereignty...I even thought about ALL of us going through the repatriation process together, but we all have to eat. I am the lowest paid employee and I plan to turn the biz over to my employees when I retire...

    Anna, I don't expect resolution from you as you are highly needed elsewhere, but a point in the right direction would bring out the researcher in me. I can be a pitbull when it comes to info and research.

    Blessings to ALL the JAVR team!��

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    1. Look in your KJV Bible, Matie Louis.
      Everything you need to know is right their.
      Why turn to Anna for direction when you can turn to the word of the Almighty God by accepting Lord Jesus the Christ as your saviour along with repentance and forsaking of all of your sins.
      This is all that is required and all that you need.
      Let God lead the way, not you.
      The more you read the more you pray the more discernment you acquire and the more God will reveal to you and protect you.
      You cannot go into battle without Gods blessing.
      Without Gods blessing and God leafing the way, you are just a sissy pussy cat and no where near a PutBull.
      God had given us dominion over PutBulls and all other animals.
      You do not want to be a PutBull.
      You want to humble yourself before he Almighty Gid and be a servant of God.
      Walk with God and let God lead the way.
      You will be protected.
      Your business will flourish like never before.

      How do I know these things.
      Did I ask someone!
      Did I do research?
      ... none of the above.
      God had to cut me down and decimate me before I would finally listen.

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    2. I have already told you guys the whole reason why they wont listen to us is because we are using their private script notes(FRN). YES, FDR took away the gold clause in 1933. But it was re-instated in 1977 under title 31 USC 5115. Since Federal Reserve Notes after that, served the same function as US Notes, there was no reason to print both. But you had to make the "DEMAND" for it using 12USC411....Demand for lawful money when ever you deal with the banks private credit, by refusing to endorse anything of theirs...checks, drafts, even FRN right on their instraments. Once you make the demand they have to treat it like "paper gold" carrying no liability with it, because you arent endorsing it with your signiture. So you see we always had the right to demand lawful money, and therefore, demanding "Common Law" along with it by simply demanding it on all instraments at 12USC411. If you go to the site i gave you above it will explain the entire process and how to handle the bank and if necessary get a certified copy of the demand at the county recorders office given on the site. Just get a stamp made up, because you are going to be using it a lot....Theres no further need to expatriate completely, but its still probably a good idea. But at least this way no one has to worry about losing their SS benifits or anything else. Once the demand is made you have actually "paid" for something instead of "discharging" your debt. The banks wont actually redeem your request using actual gold or silver, but thats ok because ,first, they dont have it, and second, the note itself represents "paper gold" as if it was really gold or silver. Once you have established a record of requesting lawful money, you can start to deal with the IRS and other taxing agencies according to the site on how to handle disputes with them. You might have to send the US Tresurer a notice, as well as WASH.DC dept of the Treasurer. Its the easiest way out of this system i have found yet, and automatically signifies our status as American State Nationals, and that we no longer live in "The Forum State"(or "State of the Forum") where contracts are made....good luck.

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    3. Appearanty, judge Anna hasnt heard of this remedy yet, or she would have told us. Thats why it is so important to share info from other sites with like minded people as us. We are all trying to help one another. Judge Anna if you happen to read this, can you tell us what you think of this new approach. People have gotten back 2 or more years of their taxes back when they inform the right parties about their mistake through ignorance of their right to demand "lawful money" from the beginning before i ever filed my first 1040 form or w4. But it wont happen again. Please tell me what you think after you read the rational behind it...Thank You.

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    4. That includes you to Paul. What do you think. The guy who studied this was doing it for a church, so they didnt have to function as a 501(c)3 corp. exempt status. There is actually another exemption found under that same sec. that gives a church the right to claim an exempt status without giving up their soverign status. I dont have it right now, but it is also on the site i reffered to. The guys name is David Merrill. Hes seen many patriots go to jail also and we both agree that all we want to do is live in peace, without going to jail.Or worse, killed. Think this over guys and lets talk about it....ok.

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    5. One other thing that the site reveiled...Postal Money orders have always been stated many times to represent real money, but until now, i never knew why. Its because Postal Money Orders says on the pay line..."PAY TO" only, whereas other money orders and all other debt instaments soecifically say..."pay to the order of" creating an obligation under private contract law. Thats the reason why..!!!

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    6. Great stuff James! I still need to go look up more detail further on this subject, but I do like where this is going.
      On the topic of money orders, a Postal Money Order still says something to the effect of "Negotiable in the US and Possessions" but an International Postal Money Order has no such clause. So to really pay in lawful money with a money order it would seem the the IPMO is the way to accomplish it.
      But thanks again for sharing the info!

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  4. In case anyone is wondering, i am letting both this site and soverign warriors know about each other. I would never direct anyone away from this site. Because soverign warriors is a simalar site like this where very intelligent people meet and discuss the latest legal remedies. But until now i never posted anything from that site because all of them , in one way or another, all want us to get control of our real name, including soverign warriors and judge Anna. But it all requires filing paperwork at the county recorders office or the courts, costing us time and money. And even if we do get it filed, we are all still using FRN and all the instraments that go along with them(ie. Checks, drafts, money orders, etc.). Using(endorsing) any of their instraments, in effect is an admission you want to use PRIVATE CREDIT instead of lawful money, requiring no signitures(no contracts). No matter how much paperwork we file, most of us cannot live without bank accounts, and checks, etc. But now we can. All we have to do is inform everyone(the banks especially) of our intention to always demand "lawful money" whenever we deal with the CORP. UNITED STATES. And the nice thing is the banks cannot "refuse" to give you an account becsuse of it. Of course, they will and have tried to close peoples account when they see how you signed your signiture card. But when that happens all you have to do is call the county recorders office at (719)520-6200 and ask for reception #207015932, filed on Feb
    5, 2007 and get a certified copy of 12USC411. Once you have a certified copy of it they cant refuse to give you an account. This demand should solve the problems with foreclosures too. Just tell the judge it was never your intention to endorse "Private Credit"from an agency that proclaimes to be our govt. by intentionally calling itself "the Federal Reserve" so as to deceive Americans into believing it was our govt. when in fact it is a "Private Corporation of International Bankers. If i had known i had the right to demand "lawful money" by making a demand at 12USC411 I would have been doing it before i ever filled out a 1040 form and W-4. But im making the "claim" right now...Nuc Pro Tunc. From now on im not signing anything, because "lawful money"doesnt require a signiture. And besides your honor, im the one who created the loan and the money using my signiture, not the bank, because they are using my Credit, not theirs to create the money for the loan in the first place. But if anyone in this courtroom thinks otherwise, or objects, then I am demanding an "AUDIT OF THE EQUITIES" and a "DATA INTEGRITY REPORT" to prove it. And at the banks expense, not mine. This is not a contest about blogs. We need to share info with each other in order to survive. Trust me, i always refer all other sites to this one too, so they understand all the work that was accomplished behind their back for all of us because of judge Anna. I hope everyone understands where im coming from...

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    1. Thank you steve for your comment. I was starting to think no one even cared what i was posting. If you read the site, i guarantee you will understand it a lot more. We can actually stamp every single FRN with that demand right on the bill, thereby changing yhe FRN into a United States "Currency" Note. Thats what it is called now. Probably because no note can be backed anymore with gold or silver. As long as it no longer is recogonized as a "debt" instrament, but lawful money that actually "PAYS" for things instead of "disvharging" our debts.

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    2. Yeah I'm definitely like looking forward to a nice deep study of the info this weekend and having a stamp made, then a trip to the bank! Thanks again James

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  5. Oh. And i have a great story for you to, by my brother who was surfing the internet about this. Some guy walked into his bank with a "silver certificate bill", you know a one dollar bill that was actually real money in its day. He wasnt really planning on giving it up, but it was a real suprise to see what would really happen when he asked for a coin dollar, or 4 quarters. First of all, every teller said they have never seen a "note" like that ever. Most of them thought it was a fake or counterfeit. Eventually, they took it to the manager who after calling someone higher up what to do, came back to the customer and told him, im sorry sir, but we cant "accept" that bill. Your best bet is to go to a collector or someone that accepts gold and silver. That should prove to everyone that "lawful money" is a liability to the bank , as much as their FR NOTES are a liability to us. From now on we are collectivily going to start "demanding" lawful money from the banks and everyone else, starting right now. What judge Anna has done for us at the "International level" we are going to accomplish at the local level in every city. It works better than a gun. If you really want to accomplish it quicker, just demand coinage, instead of "notes" everytime you deal with the banks...you insist. Coinage is not part of the federal reserve, they only control "notes" and debt instraments. This is "WAR".

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  6. Bob Hurt, I bet you created the website you recommended. Bob Hurt a crown bar solicitor definitely is voting for Hillary-Killary.

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  7. NINETEEN ENUMERATED SERVICES (DELEGATED POWERS)
    A site-search returns several references on this topic, including the following:

    Open Letter to General Dunford
    Services mentioned: (1) defend from enemies foreign and domestic, and (2) honoring of our National Trust (in the Preamble and Bill of Rights)

    Is this how the world is really run?
    Refers to "nineteen enumerated services, most of which deal with international commerce."

    America: Some Assembly Required
    Mentions "nineteen and only nineteen enumerated and delegated powers," and "the 19th is to honor and protect our rights."

    Second Base
    Refers to "nineteen enumerated government services."

    QUESTION: Where can a list be found that enumerates and states each and every one of the 19 services/powers from Number One through Number 19? Any clarification would be appreciated.

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  8. 19 OR MORE ENUMERATED DELEGATED POWERS
    The number of enumerated delegated powers varies due to diverse interpretation and scope (whether limited to the Bill of Rights but no subsequent Amendments). The most comprehensive list of non-numerated delegated powers may be found at wikipedia.

    https://quizlet.com/104153545/us-constitution-delegated-reserved-concurrent-powers-flash-cards/
    U.S. Constitution: Delegated, Reserved & Concurrent Powers

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerated_powers_(United_States)
    Enumerated powers (United States)
    List of enumerated powers of the federal constitution [the first paragraph lists either two or three powers, depending on the interpretation: (1) to lay and collect taxes, (2) to pay the debts, and (3) provide for the common defense and general welfare.

    The Congress shall have Power 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;

    To borrow on the credit of the United States;

    To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;

    To establish a uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

    To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;

    To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;

    To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

    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;

    To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;

    To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;

    To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;

    To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;

    To provide and maintain a Navy;

    To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;

    To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;

    To provide for organizing, 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;

    To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And

    To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
    — Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution

    Interpretation of the Necessary and Proper Clause has been controversial, especially during the early years of the republic.

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