16 marzo 1819 anni - Marshall’s Supreme Court: McCulloch v. Maryland

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Throughout the years of Democratic-Republican decline, John Marshall, a Federalist officer, continued to have considerable influence. In 1800, President John Adams nominated him to the Supreme Court, where
he headed the court as chief justice. The decisions of Marshall were in favor of the central government and property interests against the advocates of the interests of the nations. Many of these choices became
landmark decisions that established the relationship between the central government and the states. John Marshall passed down one of his most important rulings on the extension of federal authority in the Supreme Court case of McCulloch v. Maryland. Marshall declared that a state could not tax a federal institution because federal laws were supreme over state laws after Maryland tried to tax the Second Bank of the U.S. in Maryland. James McCulloch, a state cashier for the U.S. bank's office, declined to pay the state-imposed taxes. In a bid to recover the taxes, Maryland filed a suit against McCulloch. The court ruled that the Federal Government had the authority to create a Federal Bank and that the states did not have the power to tax the federal government. Marshall inferred, with a vague reading of the Constitution, that the Constitution granted the federal government an implicit power to create a national bank, even if it is not specified.

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