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41.Under our Constitution, some powers belong to the federal government. What is one power of the federal government?
41.憲法規(guī)定了聯(lián)邦政府一些權(quán)力。聯(lián)邦政府的一項權(quán)力是？
Answer: To print money; To declare war; To create an army; To make treaties
答案：印刷貨幣；宣戰(zhàn)；創(chuàng)建軍隊；簽訂條約
Explanation: When the 13 original states united (or came together) to make a new country, each of the states wanted to keep its powers and independence (or ability to make its own decisions).
解釋：當(dāng)最初的13個州統(tǒng)一（或聯(lián)合）成為一個新國家時，每個州都想要保持其權(quán)力和獨立（或能自己做決定）。
But the new federal (or national) government would also need some powers or else the states would not be able to work together as a new country.
但是新的聯(lián)邦（或國家）政府也需要一些權(quán)力，否則作為這個新生國家的各個州就無法團結(jié)在一起。
That is why the Constitution (our country's most important legal document) specifies (or makes clear) certain powers for the federal government and others for the states.
這就是為什么憲法（我們國家最重要的法律文件）規(guī)定了（或指明了）聯(lián)邦政府的一些權(quán)力以及各個州的其它權(quán)力。
One of the powers of the federal government is to print money or to make the bills (or paper money) and coins (or metal money) that we use to buy and sell things.
聯(lián)邦政府的其中一項權(quán)力是印刷貨幣或制造我們用來交易的紙幣和硬幣。
It makes sense that this is a federal power, because if each state could print its own money,
這個是聯(lián)邦政府的權(quán)力是有道理的，因為如果每個州都能印刷自己的貨幣的話，
then it would be very difficult to buy and sell things across state borders (or the lines drawn between states on a map, where one state ends and another state begins).
那么跨州（或地圖上畫在州之間的界線，那是一個州結(jié)束，另一個州的開始的地方）之間的交易就會變得非常困難。
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