This all started when the state of Maryland placed a tax on the banknotes of the second bank in the United States. One of the cashiers ,James McCulloch, of the bank branch appealed to the supreme court. This certain bank happened to be the only bank that was uncharted. Which means there was a heavy tax laid on it. John Marshall declared the vote to the court. Marshall stated that the law says that the bank was a lawful instrument of specific federal authority, the tax was constitutional.
The constitution has the final saw in deciding the verdict of this case. Marshall determined that congress had the right to make the bank. Marshall stood with his word saying that congress in the past had the practice of creating a bank and and addressed the
The constitution has the final saw in deciding the verdict of this case. Marshall determined that congress had the right to make the bank. Marshall stood with his word saying that congress in the past had the practice of creating a bank and and addressed the