MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
PRESIDENT JOHN ADAMS FROM ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS TO XYZ AFFAIR
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establishing a national bank
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creating a national postal system
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adding Vermont and Kentucky as states
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approving the Jay Treaty with Great Britain
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Elastic Clause is found in section eight of the United States Constitution. It gives the United States Congress power to enact laws that will assist it in carrying out its express functions.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Supreme Court, however, decided that the chartering of a bank was an implied power of the Constitution, under the “elastic clause, ” which granted Congress the authority to “make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution” the work of the Federal Government.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Elastic Clause authority was first put into practice in 1791, three years after the United States Constitution was ratified on June 21, 1788. Then the first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, invoked the Elastic Clause to justify the creation of the First Bank of the United States.