differences between two or more of the States; that Congress have the
sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of
coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective
States, fixing the standard of weights and measures, regulating the
trade, establishing post-offices, appointing all officers of the land
forces in the service of the United States, except regimental officers,
appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all
officers whatever in the service of the United States, making rules for
the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and
directing their operations; that Congress have authority to appoint a
committee to sit during their recess, to be dominated a Committee of
the States, and to consist of one delegate from each State; that
Congress shall have power to ascertain the necessary sums of money to
be raised for the service of the United States, and to appropriate and
apply the same, to borrow money or emit bills on the credit of the
United States, to build and equip a navy, to fix the number of land
forces, and to make requisitions from each State for its quota, in
proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State; that the
consent of nine States shall be requisite to any great public measure
of common interest; that Congress shall have power to adjourn to any
time within the year, and to any place within the United States, but
the adjournment not to exceed six months, and that they shall publish
their proceedings monthly, excepting such parts relating to treaties,
alliances, or military operations, as in their judgment require
secrecy; that the yeas and nays of the delegates of each State shall,
if required, be entered on the journal, and extracts granted; that the
Committee of the States, or any nine of them, shall, during the recess
of Congress, exercise such powers as Congress shall vest them with;
that Canada, if willing, shall be admitted to all the advantages of the
union; but no other colony shall be admitted, unless such admission