McCullough+v.+Madison

1) In 1816 Congress established the 2nd National Bank to help control the amount of unregulated currency issued by state banks. Many states questioned the Constitutionality of the National Bank, and Maryland set a precedent by requiring taxes on all banks not chartered by the state. James W. McCulloch, a federal cashier at the Baltimore branch to the US Bank, refused to pay the taxes imposed by the state. Maryland filed a suit against McCulloch in an effort to collect the taxes. 2) The Court determined that Congress did have the power to create the Bank. 3) It expanded Federal Power. 4)