The two other branches perform ancillary, important but ancillary functions of either executing and implementing the laws we make or interpreting the laws we make. The Constitution never once gave the federal government power to just legislate generally. They instead gave the United States government the power to do these limited things, to exercise these limited enumerated powers that James Madison described collectively in federalist number 45 as … (33:42–33:51)
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Asserts that the federal government does not have general legislative power.
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