Congress is given the authority to grant patents and copyrights.
Article I Section 8. Clause 8 – Patent and Copyright Clause of the U.S. Constitution in order to protect the free enterprise system -
Free enterprise Clause says that the Congress shall have the Power to support the development of science and useful arts, by securing for inadequate points to scholars and originators for the preferential rights to their respective articles and discoveries.”
This is the right conferred by the Constitution is the 5th Amendment, which can protect the individual resources from being taken away without due process.
<span> </span><span>to one answer USA Building an empire started with the so called Manifest destiny after the war or 1812 the USA signed that the west would be for the Indians then increased their empire ???well they needed the land after failing t put Canada in their empire they stole Texas from the Mexicans they stole Hawaii from the Royal family the Purchased Alaska they forced the UK into a fire sale then took Land for Goods sorry 99 year leases Just Like the Colony if Hong Kong </span><span>
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