The Ninth Act of the First U.S. Congress

In developing our Constitution the representatives of the new government were separated into two distinct camps. The Federalists who wanted the central government to have certain powers, and the anti-federalists camp who wanted almost all power to rest within individual states. After much wrangling it was decided that the federal government would print a national currency, devise and maintain a postal system, maintain a military, act on behalf of the states in foreign and Indian matters, collect custom dues on imported goods and, through the Commerce Clause "regulate" and "facilitate" commerce.