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  2. Report on a National Bank - Wikipedia

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    Secretary Hamilton's famous rebuttal [16] [19] on the Bank submitted to Washington on February 23, 1791, introduced the doctrine of “implied powers,” [8] based on the principle of broad construction of the Constitution. [20]

  3. History of central banking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    As described by Gresham's law, soon bad money from state banks drove out the new, good money; [9] the government imposed a 10% tax on state bank bills, forcing most banks to convert to national banks. By 1865, there were already 1,500 national banks. In 1870, 1,638 national banks stood against only 325 state banks.

  4. Second Report on Public Credit - Wikipedia

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    In United States history, the Second Report on the Public Credit, [1] also referred to as The Report on a National Bank, [2] was the second of four influential reports on fiscal and economic policy delivered to Congress by the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton.

  5. John Quincy Adams - Wikipedia

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    Crawford favored state sovereignty and a strict constructionist view of the Constitution, while Clay, Calhoun, and Adams embraced federally funded internal improvements, high tariffs, and the Second Bank of the United States, which was also known as the national bank. [86]

  6. The Crown - Wikipedia

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    Either form may be abbreviated R (Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union. In Scotland, criminal prosecutions are undertaken by the lord advocate (or the relevant procurator fiscal) in the name of the Crown. Accordingly, the abbreviation HMA is used in the High Court of Justiciary for His/Her Majesty's Advocate, in place of ...

  7. First Bank of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Hamilton, then Secretary of the Treasury, argued that the bank was an effective means to utilize the authorized powers of the government implied under the law of the Constitution. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson argued that the bank violated traditional property laws and that its relevance to constitutionally authorized powers was weak.

  8. Bank War - Wikipedia

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    The First Bank of the United States was established at the direction of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton in 1791. Hamilton supported the foundation of a national bank because he believed that it would increase the authority and influence of the federal government, effectively manage trade and commerce, strengthen the national defense, and pay the debt.

  9. R v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ...

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    The case, R (Bancoult) v Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, went to the Divisional Court, where it was heard by judges Richard Gibbs and John Laws. [13] Bancoult's argument was made on several grounds: firstly, that the Crown could not exclude a British citizen from British territory, except in times of war, without a ...