Members of the 3rd Estate in France had all sorts of reasons to dislike the king and queen -- King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette -- in the days leading up to the French Revolution. Let me count the ways (well, a few of them):
1. Louis XVI was not a kingly figure. He preferred to be out in the woods hunting or at a workbench taking apart a clock than doing the tasks of royal government. He wasn't the sort of person to inspire the confidence of the people in him.
2. Marie Antoinette was an Austrian princess, and the French people despised the Austrians. France and Austria had been enemies for years, and this attempt to bring the two countries together through a marriage wasn't popular with the people.
3. Louis and Marie had sex problems. You'd think that would be a private matter, but when you're the king and queen it's your job to produce an heir to the throne, and they weren't managing to do that.
4. Both Louis and Marie spent way too much money -- money that came from the taxpayers (the members of the 3rd Estate). Louis spent it on the lavish palace life of Versailles and on wars. (His government had given a huge loan to the Americans to help them fight vs. Britain.) Marie spent money on frills and dresses and jewelry and whatnot.
5. They didn't seem to know the people's situation or care about them much. They didn't want to be bothered with concerns about the poor people of France.
I could keep counting more ways, but that's enough for now!
The US Constitution is the supreme law of the land.
The fundamental question in mcculloch v. maryland involved the ability of the U.S. government to pass laws not listed in the U.S. Constitution!
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819), was a decision by the U.S Supreme Court. The state of Maryland had attempted to halt operation of a branch of the Second Bank of the U.S. by imposing a tax on all money of banks not chartered in Maryland. The law applied to all banks not based in Maryland. This Second Bank was, in Maryland, was the only out-of-state bank then, so the law was specifically made for the Second Bank. Then Court created the "Necessary and Proper Clause" of the Constitution, which allowed the Federal government to pass laws not mentioned in the Constitution's powers. It was a go-around way from following the Constitution.
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- Both became militaristic and started expanding their empires.
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