And its powers include primarily the power to establish a uniform system of laws governing immigration and naturalization, who can come into the country, who becomes a citizen, and so forth. The power to collect taxes, to raise money, and to spend that money in pursuit of federal purposes [is a federal power]. as ordained by the Constitution. Those are both deficits in the Articles of Confederation that they filled. The power to regulate trade or commerce between the states with foreign nations and with the Indian tribes. (28:55–29:04)
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Asserts that taxation and spending for federal purposes are federal powers.
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