The power to collect taxes, to raise money, and to spend that money in pursuit of federal purposes 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 [is a federal power]. The power to establish a uniform system of weights and measures. The power to set up a system of postal roads. (29:11–29:18)
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Asserts that regulating interstate and international commerce is a federal power.
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