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It can look for tlie payment of the tax to none other than the subjects of the tax. But if any of them do not own themselves, they cannot owe the tax. This clause implies, therefore, the self-ownership of men, and not their ownership by others. 3. '' Congress shall have poiuer to establish a uniform, rule of naturalization^ But this power, if faithfully exercised, is fatal to slav- ery. For if our three millions and a half of slaves are not already citizens. Congress can under this power make t...hem such, at any time. It can confer on them, as easily as on foreigners, the rights of citizenship. I add, that, had the slaveholders wished (as however they did not) to perpetuate slavery, they would if they could have qualified this absolute and unlimited power of naturalization, which the Constitution confers on Con- gress. 4. " The Congress shall have power to promote the pro- gress of science and useful arts hy securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respect- ive writings and discoveries.
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