Mcculloch Vs Maryland

The decisions made in McCulloch v. Maryland recognized and explained to the United States the nation’s need for a strong central government. After fighting in the War of 1812, the United States of America experienced a significant amount of disarray and difficulty without a bank to supervise the country’s finances and to provide a reliable institution that the population could depend on amidst all the chaos. Alexander Hamilton’s idea of a national bank would serve the purpose of providing one common institution that could help the entire country through its difficult times, but first the federal government needed to exercise supreme power over the state governments in order to ever possibly complete that task. While the federal government and
Maryland when they legalized the use of the Bank of the United States by establishing the precedent that the federal government holds complete superiority in the government. Franklin Delano Roosevelt cited Marshall’s ruling when he expanded the powers of the federal government to enforce the New Deal, and as a result, he protected the security of the American population and prevented the nation from experiencing another major depression ever again (Hobson 294). Marshall’s ruling also provided the legal background for the Enforcement Acts and other laws during Reconstruction that protected the suffrage of blacks by taking away power from state governments in order to validate the rights of blacks to hold representation in the government. By introducing the idea that state governments hold less power than the national government, Marshall allowed the country to unite under the decisions of the general population instead of becoming divided because of the actions of the rebellious states. When the Framers first gathered to write the Constitution and organize the government of the United States, they all knew that they needed to create a government that would last for countless years to
Maryland verdict, which permitted broad interpretation of the Constitution and allowed the government to adjust and amend their practices in order to benefit the country in the best way possible. When the Framers first created and organized the American government, they desired to create a constitution “intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequentially, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs” (Levy 1707). In order to guarantee that the government would always maintain power as time went on and situations changed, the authors of the Constitution decided to include the Elastic Clause. This vague clause would allow Congress to perform any actions that seemed necessary in order to preserve the country and protect the rights of the people. Additionally, the authors of the Constitution arranged for an official, complex amending process within the construction of the government in order to allow it to adapt to the times (Gillman 1632). Giving this amending power to the leadership of the country helped to institute new laws throughout American history that the Framers never needed to address initially. Despite the intentions to create an administration that promised equal rights to all American citizens, the original Constitution actually discriminated against a large portion of people living in America at the time. Indigenous Native