<span>The correct answer is federal spending. It's a great thing for regulating federal spending because it can be used to nullify and veto only specific parts of legislature without vetoing the entire legislature pack. This way you can only ban the part that would increase spending, but you wouldn't ban the entire law from being voted.</span>
Many considered Louis XVI to be ineffectual mainly because of the fact that the revolution had already taken place, and that he was unable to enact any meaningful policies.
The breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 may be most directly linked to the 20th-c. process of fragmentation.