Congress has power to raise and support armies and to provide and maintain a navy. Yet we entered Into a treaty with Great Britainand for a hundred years have observed Itlimiting the number of armed vessels on the Great Lakes. Congress has power to make laws naturalizing aliens. Yet by treaty with Spain. on the purclise of Florida. the inhabitants of that territory were made citizens of the United States. as was also done by the treaty of GuadalupeHidalgo with Mexico. yet no one ever contended that the Constitution of the United States was being interfered with by thus creating citizens of the United States by treaty. Congress has power to make rules and regulations respecting the property of the United States.
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