THE VIRGINIA DYNASTY 1801 1825
JAMES MADISON AFTER THE WAR OF 1812 THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS
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States could sue the federal government.
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The Supreme Court gained the power of judicial review.
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Congress had the implied power to create a national bank.
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The federal government gained control over interstate commerce.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -In 1818, Maryland legislators passed a law imposing a stamp tax on currency issued by second Bank of the United States, in an effort to hinder it from doing business. In response, a cashier at the bank’s Baltimore branch, James W. McCulloch, refused to pay the tax.
Detailed explanation-3: -Second, federalism is a system of shared power between state governments and the national government, but the decision in McCulloch v. Maryland established and reaffirmed the fact that the United States has a strong central government and that federal law has authority over state law.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland established that Congress had the power to establish a national bank and that a state (in this case, Maryland) did not have the power to tax branches of the federal government that are carrying out powers legal in the Constitution.
Detailed explanation-5: -Which of the following is true about the case of McCulloch v. Maryland and the conflict between the state and federal government? The state sued the national government based on the claims that the national government had overstepped its bounds by creating the bank and the states could tax it.