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Ami Bera: “`` . . . to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; to define and punish piracies and felonies committed on…”

On the recordJanuary 15, 2013
`` . . . 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; . . .''
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Ami Bera
Democratic · California
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govinfo.gov
Jan 15, 2013

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