<span>The Commerce Clause: gives government exclusive right to regulate interstate commerce.</span>
More than 3 million people (including over 58,000 Americans) were killed in the Vietnam War
<span>the invasion of Japan that cost tens of thousands of American lives. </span>
The Congress of the United States in fact retains most of the power in these two areas relative to the President and the individual states, with Congress having the power to declare war and confirm ambassadors appointed by the President.
<span>the government in such a case might have become an autocracy. An autocratic state is defined as one in which all the governing powers are concentrated in the hands of one individual without leaving any scope for checks and balances for administering the state.</span>