Rephrase each passage from the U. S. Constitution in your own words:

1. Article I, Section 7 – Revenue Bills, Legislative Process, Presidential Veto
“All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”

2. Article I, Section 8 – Powers of Congress
“The Congress shall have Power To Lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts…but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.”

3. “To borrow money on the credit of the United States; to regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes…uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;

4. “To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;”

5. Article VI – Debts, Supremacy, Oaths
“All Debts contracted and Engagements entered into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation.”

6. Amendment XIV, Section 4
“The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for payment of pensions and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave; but all such debts, obligations and claims shall be held illegal and void.”

7. Amendment XVI
“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.”