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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 October 2024. 1819 United States Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland Supreme Court of the United States Argued February 21 – March 3, 1819 Decided March 6, 1819 Full case name James McCulloch v. The State of Maryland, John James [a] Citations 17 U.S. 316 (more) 4 Wheat. 316; 4 L. Ed. 579; 1819 ...
It is also referred to as a Supremacy Clause immunity or simply federal immunity from state law. The doctrine was established by the United States Supreme Court in McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), [1] which ruled unanimously that states may not regulate property or operations of the federal government. In that case, Maryland state law subjected ...
McCulloch v. Maryland: 17 U.S. 316 (1819) doctrine of implied powers Sturges v. Crowninshield: 17 U.S. 122 (1819) constitutionality of state bankruptcy laws: Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward: 17 U.S. 518 (1819) impairment of contracts: Cohens v. Virginia: 19 U.S. 264 (1821) judicial review of state supreme court decisions Johnson v ...
The Supreme Court would again uphold this principle in Cohens v. Virginia (1821). [12] McCulloch v. Maryland (1819): In a unanimous opinion written by Chief Justice Marshall, the court held that the state of Maryland had no power to tax a federal bank (the Second Bank of the United States) operating in Maryland.
The clause, as justification for the creation of a national bank, was put to the test in 1819 during McCulloch v. Maryland [ 6 ] in which Maryland had attempted to impede the operations of the Second Bank of the United States by imposing a prohibitive tax on out-of-state banks, the Second Bank of the United States being the only one.
The state of Maryland imposed a tax on the national bank, but James McCulloch, the manager of the national bank's branch in Baltimore, refused to pay the tax. After he was convicted by Maryland's court system, McCulloch appealed to the Supreme Court, and the Court heard the case of McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) was a significant case in this regard. The state of Maryland had levied a tax on banks not chartered by the state; the tax applied, state judges ruled, to the Bank of the United States chartered by Congress in 1816. Marshall wrote that "the States have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden ...
Maryland, decided in 1819, established two important principles, one of which explains that states cannot make actions to impede on valid constitutional exercises of power by the federal government. The other explains that Congress has the implied powers to implement the express powers written in the Constitution to create a functional national ...