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In his 1885 memoirs former US President Ulysses Grant (himself a veteran of the Mexican war) attributed Mexico's defeat to the poor quality of their army writing:. New Orleans became nationally important as a slave market and port as slaves were shipped from there upriver by steamboat to plantations on the Mississippi River; it also sold slaves who had been shipped downriver from markets such as Louisville by 1840 it had the largest slave market in North America it became the wealthiest and the fourth-largest city in the nation based chiefly on the slave trade and associated businesses the trading season was from September to May after the harvest. Washington D.C. Business Directory See also: Proslavery and Fire-Eaters! . Congress has authority over financial and budgetary policy through the enumerated power to "lay and collect Taxes Duties Imposts and Excises to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States" There is vast authority over budgets although analyst Eric Patashnik suggested that much of Congress's power to manage the budget has been lost when the welfare state expanded since "entitlements were institutionally detached from Congress's ordinary legislative routine and rhythm". Another factor leading to less control over the budget was a Keynesian belief that balanced budgets were unnecessary.

15 Notes Main articles: George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River Battle of Trenton and Battle of Princeton. . . . At the time of the convention 13 men were merchants: Blount Broom Clymer Dayton Fitzsimons Shields Gilman Gorham Langdon Robert Morris Pierce Sherman and Wilson. Retrocession and the Civil War, U.S Army occupation of Mexico City in 1847 the American flag is flying over the National Palace the seat of the Mexican government, Outbreak of the war Noah Haynes Swayne January 21 1862 January 24 1862. . Article One Section Eight of the United States Constitution grants the United States Congress "exclusive jurisdiction" over the city the District did not have an elected local government until the passage of the 1973 Home Rule Act the Act devolved certain Congressional powers to an elected mayor currently Muriel Bowser and the thirteen-member Council of the District of Columbia However Congress retains the right to review and overturn laws created by the council and intervene in local affairs, The Mexican Cession shown in red and the later Gadsden Purchase shown in yellow.