- To declare War
- Grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal (low level declaration of war)
- Make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
- To raise and support Armies (No Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years);
- To provide and maintain a Navy (To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces);
- To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions