Article I, Section 8, Clause 6
To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
The Federalist and Federalist essays
- quoted bySuggestedA Native of Virginia, Article I, ¶ 64
To provide for the puniſhment of counterfeiting the ſecurities •nd current coin of the United States;
The paragraph prints Article I, Section 8, Clause 6 of the Constitution as signed; the quoted words are the same as the clause's (apart from capitals and the long s), though the pamphlet's punctuation differs in places.
- quoted bySuggestedFederalist No. 42, ¶ 12
…powers comprehended under this third description, to wit: to regulate commerce among the several States and the Indian tribes; to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin; to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the current coin and secureties of the United States; to fix the standard of weights and measures; to establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws of bankruptcy, to prescribe the manner in which the public acts,…
Reproduces the wording of this clause in its list of the third class of powers, with "current coin" and "secureties" in the reverse order.
Debates in Congress
- cited bySuggestedHouse, January 28, 1869 (3), ¶ 36
'You have the express power to define the punishment of trea on the express power to 'punish the counterfeiting of coin or securities of the United States; the express power to define and punish piracies and felonies committed upon the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations; exclusive legislative power within this District: express…
The paragraph, part of a quotation from Mr. Bingham's speech of 1866, names the express power to "punish the counterfeiting of coin or securities of the United States"; only Article I, Section 8, Clause 6 fits.
On Article I, Section 8 as a whole
- cited bySuggestedHouse, January 6, 1865, ¶ 34
- cited bySuggestedHouse, August 27, 1962, ¶ 261
- cited bySuggestedSenate, June 12, 1911, ¶ 292
- cited bySuggestedSenate, February 16, 1933 (2), ¶ 291
- cited bySuggestedSenate, March 27, 1962 (3), ¶ 153
- cited bySuggestedMassachusetts convention, January 21, 1788, ¶ 31
- cited bySuggestedPennsylvania convention, December 4, 1787, ¶ 51
- cited bySuggestedRemarks on the New Plan, ¶ 6
- cited byFederalist No. 82, note 2
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