CL 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;
CL 7 To establish Post Offices and post Roads
CL 8 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
CL 9 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
Letters of marque
A letter of marque was a commission authorising privately owned ships (known as privateers) to capture enemy merchant ships.
A letter of marque was issued by the High Court of Admiralty. Any captured vessels were then brought before admiralty courts for condemnation and sale.
Privateers were viewed as heroic and noble as opposed to pirates, who had no letters of marque, and were universally condemned as thieves and vagabonds.
let·ter of marque
/ˌletər əv ˈmärk/
a license to fit out an armed vessel and use it in the capture of enemy merchant shipping and to commit acts which would otherwise have constituted piracy
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Letter of marque - Wikipedia Letter of marque - Wikipedia
The body of Captain William Kidd hanging in a gibbet over the Thames, the result of confusion over whether Captain Kidd took prizes legally under a letter of marque, or illegally as a pirate.
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Deuteronomy 11:4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
CL 9 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;
To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;
letters of marque?
Letter of marque, the name given to the commission issued by a belligerent state to a private shipowner authorizing him to employ his vessel as a ship of war. A ship so used is termed a privateer.
A letter of marque and reprisal was a government license in the Age of Sail that authorized a private person, known as a privateer or corsair, to attack and capture vessels of a nation at war with the issuer. Wikipedia
Letters of marque
A letter of marque was a commission authorising privately owned ships (known as privateers) to capture enemy merchant ships.
A letter of marque was issued by the High Court of Admiralty. Any captured vessels were then brought before admiralty courts for condemnation and sale.
Privateers were viewed as heroic and noble as opposed to pirates, who had no letters of marque, and were universally condemned as thieves and vagabonds.
let·ter of marque
/ˌletər əv ˈmärk/
a license to fit out an armed vessel and use it in the capture of enemy merchant shipping and to commit acts which would otherwise have constituted piracy
en.wikipedia.org
Letter of marque - Wikipedia Letter of marque - Wikipedia
The body of Captain William Kidd hanging in a gibbet over the Thames, the result of confusion over whether Captain Kidd took prizes legally under a letter of marque, or illegally as a pirate.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 3: Compact Clause
No state shall, without the consent of Congress, lay any duty of tonnage, keep troops, or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state, or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Article I, Section 10, Clause 3: Compact Clause
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Deuteronomy 11:4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and to their chariots; how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you, and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day;
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