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Case Background
1. The plaintiff of the case is James W. McCulloch and the defendant of the case is the state of Maryland.
2. The case was brought to the Supreme Court because in 1816, Congress chartered the second bank of the United States and in 1818, Maryland passed legislation to impose taxes on the bank. James W. McCulloch, the cashier of the Baltimore branch of the bank, refused to pay the tax.
3. The state of Maryland believed that they had the right to tax the bank because it was not forbidden by the Constitution and the National Bank was not even legal while McCulloch believed that the States were forbidden to tax anything of the National government beyond real property and that it was necessary for Congress to create and coin money, collect taxes, and borrow money.
Constitutional Connections
4. The key rights that were involved in this case are the Necessary and Proper Clause and the Taxing and Spending Clause.
5. The case primarily centered on an issue of civil liberties because this case affected the good of the community which is the definition of civil liberties and not civil rights which is the rights of citizens.
Case Outcomes
6. The outcome of the McCulloch v. Maryland case was that the National Bank is legal because of the Necessary and Proper Clause so Maryland could not tax the National Bank since the bank is legal, the tax is a violation of the principle of National Supremacy.
7. The vote was unanimous so all the justices agreed on the decision of this case.
8. The main impacts of McCulloch v Maryland were that it established federal law as supreme over states, it helped determine how powers would be divided between the Federal Government and the States, and the Court’s decision made it clear that the Constitution gives Congress powers beyond those explicitly listed.
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