What amendment did McCulloch v Maryland?

Answer 1

According to Maryland, Congress violated the Tenth Amendment by chartering the Second Bank of the United States in Baltimore in 1817. The Tenth Amendment states:

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Maryland believed Congress had infringed the State's right of sovereign authority because the Constitution didn't explicitly mention banking; therefore, they reasoned, chartering banks was a reserved right under the Constitution. Maryland decided to exercise their authority by passing a law taxing all banks not chartered in Maryland.

Chief Justice Marshall held that the Taxing and Spending Clause implied a need for handling revenue (Article I, Section 8, Clause 1) and the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) allowed Congress to establish a national bank in order to facilitate the exercise of legitimate constitutional powers. Further, Marshall held that the Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2) elevated federal law above state law when the two are in conflict, and prohibited the states from interfering with government activity.

Additional Information:

This case was instrumental in providing clarification to what the "implied powers" of Congress (here, at a federal level) were, and as a show of the authority structure of the states versus the federal government.

In John Marshall's decision, he declared that outside of those powers immediately declared Congress, there are unwritten powers entitled them to provide for the continuity of the United States -- this hearkens to the "necessary and proper clause" of the Constitution.

Marshall also declared that states did not have the right to impinge upon any law created Constitutionally by Congress, as they had done by placing a tax upon Maryland-based federal banks.

Case Citation:

McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 US 316 (1819)

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Answer 2

McCulloch v. Maryland was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States. The state of Maryland had attempted to impede operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a tax on all notes of banks not chartered in Maryland.

Answer 3

The US Supreme Court invoked two constitutional clauses to support the decision in McCulloch v. Maryland, (1819).

First, the Court addressed whether Congress could charter a federal bank, although such power is not enumerated in the Constitution. Chief Justice Marshall held the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) allows Congress to take make appropriate laws to support legitimate federal interests

In the opinion of the Court, Marshall concluded that Congress had the right to establish a national bank as an implied power under the Necessary and Proper Clause because the bank was being used to further Congress' constitutional authority to tax and distribute funds. Unlike the Articles of Confederation, which preceded the US Constitution, the Constitution does not prohibit the exercise of implied powers necessary to assist in carrying out constitutional mandates.

Second, the Court held that the federal law chartering the bank superseded punitive Maryland state laws that attempted to tax the bank out of existence, under the Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Clause 2).

Necessary and Proper Clause

"To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof."

Supremacy Clause

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."

Case Citation:

McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 US 316 (1819)

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Answer 4

10th amendment -love kylee gittings

Answer 5

he answered by not paying the taxes