The angel tried in vain to allay her husband's excitement. This sweeping statement was not calculated to allay my discomfort. Nor did I seek to allay their wrath, knowing but too well that it was justified. It will be easy to excite passion and difficult to allay it.
McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) The Supreme Court case that defined the scope of the federal legislative power and the federal governmentâs relationship with state government authority. (Read the opinion here). The United States Congress incorporated a federal Bank of the United States through a legislative act.
However, the State of Maryland also sought to tax the federal bank. Andrew McCulloch, who worked in the Baltimore branch of the Bank of the United States, refused to pay the tax. The State of Maryland sued, and the Supreme Court accepted the case. Writing for the Court, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the federal government did indeed have the right and power to set up a federal bank. Further, he wrote, a state did not have the power to tax the federal government.