which of the following events best demonstrates the federal government exercising the power described in the first paragraph
of the passage above?

Militarism is the answer.

Answer: tokugawa ieyasu (徳川家康, january 31, 1543 – june 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the tokugawa shogunate of japan, which effectively ruled japan from the battle of sekigahara in 1600 until the meiji restoration in 1868.

The answer will be a