States are limited in how much they can tax, and local units have no independent powers, the only taxes they can impose are those that the state allows them to levy.
A constitutional government is a government that has a limit to the power.
A constitutional monarchy.
The constitutional powers that help to limit the power of government is dividing it into three branches. The three branches of government are executive, legislative and judiciary.
No, the President of the USA does not have the Constitutional power to impose any tax. That is a power of the legislative branch of the government.
Nazi Germany
exports must not be taxed
The goal was to strengthen the national government and to limit its power.
Power of the Federal Government
US Constitution 16th amendment: "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived."
In an absolute monarchy, there is no limit on the power of the ruler. A constitutional monarchy imposes certain limits on the ruler's power. In the UK, the monarch's role is largely ceremonial.
To limit the powers so no one branch of the government has too much power.
congress could not tax exports