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Back to Episodes"The Power to Destroy": A Chat with Clyde Ray about McCulloch V Maryland
Season 1
Episode 121
Published 2 years, 2 months ago
Description
Jeff and Scott chat with Clyde Ray, a political scientist and author of the book John Marshall's Constitutionalism, about the Supreme Court case McCulloch v Maryland, which hinged on whether a state could tax a federal bank.
In this case, John Marshall teaches us that "the power to tax involves the power to destroy."