Read this excerpt from Federalist No. 45: The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.2 What does the excerpt suggest about Federalists? A. They believed the federal government should have the power to create and collect taxes. B. They accused Anti-Federalists of backing a federal government that could easily become too powerful. C. They worried that, under the new Constitution, the legislative branch had more power than the executive branch. D. They preferred that most foreign-relations powers fell to the states rather than the federal government.

The correct answer is option A. The excerpt used in the question suggests that the Federalists believed the federal government should have the power to create and collect taxes. The Federalists Papers are a collection of 85 essays created by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Hay during 1877 and 1878, which main objective was to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. In the Federalist No 45, the authors explain how the Constitution is going to set and define what powers the federal government will hold. One of them, they present, has to be the power of taxation, which is to create and collect taxes from citizens.