The the power to decide whether or not and action of the government violates the constitution

might be agreeing to participate ethically with other european nations in the slave trade

or notifying other european nations when taking possession   of african territories

answer

explanation

the given equation is

we can rewrite this as:

let

then the equation becomes:

the factors of 8 that sum up to -9 are {-1,-8}

we split the middle term with these factors to obtain,

we factor by grouping to obtain:

apply the zero product property to get:

but