Article I of the US Constitution puts this power in the hands of each State's legislature.
If you are interested in this topic, there is a fascinating development in this occurring in the Second Congressional District of Maine, which has adopted Ranked Choice Voting to determine its representatives. The loser of this year's election just sued in Federal Court to invalidate this as a way to hold an election.
To grow larger and more powerful. They didn't have to pay people to work so they were able to keep to money and continue to buy more land and grow.
they made a system that divides power.
(I'M NOT SURE OK MIGHT BE WRONG)
The word “imperialism” is widely used as an emotive—and more rarely
as a theoretical—term to denote specific forms of aggressive behavior on
the part of certain states against others; the concept refers primarily
to attempts to establish or retain formal sovereignty over subordinate
political societies, but it is also often equated with the exercise of any form of political control or influence by one political community over another.
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