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supremacy clause
had no power to tax the federal bank
had no power to tax the federal bank
It is true, this stems from the Supreme Court's application of the Supremacy Clause. Federal law supersedes all state treaties generated under the Tenth Amendment.
The supremacy clause, which is a clause within Article VI of U.S. Constitution. It dictates that a federal law is "supreme law of the land".
The supremacy clause gave the federal government the ability to override the states bill of rights.
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The Supremacy Clause
One of the earliest examples of the Supreme Court ruling that a state law violated the constitution under the Supremacy Clause came in the landmark McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), wherein the court ruled that the state of Maryland could not tax the Second Bank of the United States, establishing the principle that the states could not tax the federal government. taken directly from http://www.answers.com/topic/supremacy-clause
Supremacy clause
had no power to tax the federal bank