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The federal government gained powers not explicitly mentioned in the constitution
Maryland National Bank Association
McCulloch v. Maryland settled that the National Bank was constitutional. Also it settled that Maryland does not have the power to tax a institution created by congress.
Maryland bank national association .
The Constitution did not specifically grant the government the power to create the bank.
The Constitution did not specifically grant the government the power to create the bank.
The Second National Bank was established to aid in recovering from the debt incurred during the Revolutionary War.
In McCulloch v. Maryland, the United States Supreme Court declared that a state cannot tax a national bank. In explaining the decision, Chief Justice of the United States John Marshall declared that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy" meaning that if an individual state were allowed to tax a national bank, it could tax it so heavily that it would destroy it, and no individual state should have the power to destroy an institution that had been created by the U.S. government.
He argued that Congress had the power to create a bank because the Constitution granted the federal government authority to do anything "necessary and proper" to carry out its constitutional functions
Government employed bank. Taxed the government. In 1819, the Supreme Court ruled the Congress had power to incoporate a bank and a state could not tax national government employed instruments such as a bank.
Congress decided to create the bank anyways and therefore formed the Bank of the United States.
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