Explanation:
Rehabilitation of infrastructures, roads and schools.
Prevent large corporations from eliminating their competition
A feature of the original Constitution that led to the growth in power of the national government is the elastic clause. Also known as the "necessary and proper" clause, this section of the Constitution gives Congress the power to make any laws they consider "necessary and proper" in regard to carrying out their other tasks, which has allowed the power of the national government to expand over the years. Another feature that had this effect was the vagueness of the president's powers in Article II of the original constitution. Left up to interpretation, the President's powers have expanded greatly and, being the head of the national executive branch, with it the power of the national government.
I think the main purpose of the eu is to prevent the triggering of a III WW in Europe. To ensure peace, the EU has worked in these years by linking all of the economies and political systems of member states. So making the economy thrive is a way to achieve this goal, it is not, as others have written, the main purpose of the european union. At all. The eu has much much different ambitions. If in its work, it makes people richer, the better, but in order to get into the EU a country doesn’t have to be rich, or big or christian, or strictly with a european territory or anything of the sort.
The Oregon Treaty was signed in 1846 settling the dispute between Britain and the United States over the ownership of Oregon Country, which was in the Pacific Northwest area of America. Since the Treaty of 1818, Oregon Country was co-owned by Britain and the U.S.