The Legislative Branch consists of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Senate has 100 Senators, 2 for each states.
The position that the strict constructionists take in the
early years under the constitution is that the congress had the power of which
only listed in the article 2, section 8, and clause 1-17. Whereas the liberal constructionists
would have their congress to stench their power with the use of the elastic
clause, known as clause 18.
After the Soviet Union lost twenty million soldiers in WW2, Stalin wanted to make buffer zones around friendly states so they would never be invaded again.
It led to the expansion of Hellenistic culture
