While (opponents of the Constitution] admit that the govemnment of the United States is destitute of energy, they contend against conferring upon those powers which are requisite ti supply that
energy. They seem still to aim at things repugnant and irreconcilable; at an augmentation of federal authority, withoulta diminution State authority, sovereignty in the Union, and complete
independence in the members.
This (requires that] a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation [is] necessary, in order to show that the evils v experience do not proceed from
structure of the building, which cannot be amended otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the
minute or partial imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amen)
fabric.
(Tjhe United States has an indefinite discretion to [plead for] for men and money, but they have no authority to raise either, by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.
The consequence of this it that though in theory their resolutions concerning those objects are laws, constitutionally binding on the members of the Union, yet in practice they are mere
recommendations which the States observe or disregard at their option.
Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist 15
Which of the following excerpts from Article I of the United States Constitution resolves a problem described by the author?