Which of the following powers of the national government is an inherent power?
a. declare war
b. make treaties with foreign countries
c. grant patents and copyrights
d. regulate immigration

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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a historian is attempting to study how the puritans affected society in new england

what exactly is the question to this?