<span>strict:Constitution states that the government of the United States holds only those powers specifically granted to it by the Constitution;loose:interpretation of the Constitution posits that the government of the United States hold all powers that are not specifically denied to it by the Constitution.</span>
All the expeditions were because their country's needed to find new land to conquer. They all were after more land so they could have power over the people that lived there. They also had expeditions to discover new places and to study the world.
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