Read this excerpt from federalist no. 45: the powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government are few and defined. those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. the former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.2 what does the excerpt suggest about federalists? a. they believed the federal government should have the power to create and collect taxes. b. they accused anti-federalists of backing a federal government that could easily become too powerful. c. they worried that, under the new constitution, the legislative branch had more power than the executive branch. d. they preferred that most foreign-relations powers fell to the states rather than the federal government.

The correct answer is option A. The excerpt used in the question suggests that the Federalists believed the federal government should have the power to create and collect taxes. The Federalists Papers are a collection of 85 essays created by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Hay during 1877 and 1878, which main objective was to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. In the Federalist No 45, the authors explain how the Constitution is going to set and define what powers the federal government will hold. One of them, they present, has to be the power of taxation, which is to create and collect taxes from citizens.

in the 1800s, chinese workers migrated to the united states, first to work in the gold mines, but also to take agricultural jobs, and factory work, especially in the garment industry. chinese immigrants were particularly instrumental in building railroads in the american west, and as chinese laborers grew successful in the united states, a number of them became entrepreneurs in their own right. as the numbers of chinese laborers increased, so did the strength of anti-chinese sentiment among other workers in the american economy. this finally resulted in legislation that aimed to limit future immigration of chinese workers to the united states, and threatened to sour diplomatic relations between the united states and china.