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New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more States, or Parts of States, without the Consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the
The correct answer is: "create and collect new taxes".
The US Consitution, in Article I (Section 8) ennumerates in 17 paragraphs the (expressed) powers of the Congress. One of them is the power to "lay and collect taxes, duties, imports, and excises." The Congress can design and introduce taxes that seek to provide funding for federal defense mechanisms and, in general, taxes that aim to enhance the common welfare of the Union.
Apart from severe economic troubles generated by ther articles of confederation, one of the troubling events was Shay's rebellion which occured in 1787, casued by high taxes in Massachusetts. The local rebellion lead by Daneil Shay used violence to close several local courts as well as challenge the supreme court of Massachusetts to prevent foreclosure and debt processing. The rebellion was eventuallt halted and stopped by the militia and thus showed the failings of the articles of confederation. This even showed that a strong federal government was necessarily to prevent and contain such events as Shay's rebellion. This was one of the principle reasons the Articles of Confederation was rewritten into the Consitution of the United States.
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the area's rivers provide easy coastal access,leading people to establish trading cities
