McCulloch v. Maryland: The Birth of Big Government | 5-Minute Videos | PragerU
America was built on the principle of limited government—but the 1819 Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland changed that. In this PragerU 5-Minute Video, John Yoo, Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, explains how the landmark ruling expanded federal power, strengthened the authority of Congress, and set a lasting precedent for broad constitutional interpretation. Discover how McCulloch v. Maryland reshaped the balance between state and federal governments and transformed the future of American law.
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If ever one can show an alternative means to accomplish a task, it shall be proved that the first offering was not necessary. Since that method of disproof is possible it is then perhaps impossible to ever attest a plan is necessary. It would be well neigh impossible to prove that some one could not find an alternative. So not finding one does not prove that the first, proposed legislation, is necessary.
All in all "necessary and proper" seems prone to immense corruption. It should be used rarely or never, and always viewed with extreme skepticism.
Collectists want to change American constitution
To be adapted!
Great video. Nice EA education.
Our great grandfathers wouldn't even recognize the country we live in. Seat belt laws for example. "Click it or ticket". Insane.
I think John Marshall would approve of regulations on the kind of light bulbs we use. "The government creates rules on what kind of light bulbs we can buy." More accurately, standards as to what the light bulbs we buy both should and should not do or be. Another example of PragerU being stupid and viciously manipulative.
A lot of good and bad came from it.
Implied powers , may be necessary, but when criminals are in charge of government it is a nightmare.
Excellent analysis, now it's time to teach such lessons in high schools & colleges lest we suffer an ever increasing over reaching and over bloated government.
With that ruling Marshall gave the judicial branch complete power over the entire government. And if you don't like it, you can appeal to the judicial branch 😄
make light bulbs affordable again
Big government without the 16th Amendment would have been much harder.
So you're saying the Anti-Federalists were right.
"Power corrupts." The purpose of SCOTUS is to side with the federal government every time they make a power grab. SCOTUS only has the power they do because Marshall took it away from the states and they let him.
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Now, the rich can buy off the Republicans senators, so they can spend trillions of $$$ on defense spending because they're desperate for campaign money.
Over regulated equal bigger government
Marshall did not understand the eels of Marxism Marxism did not exist in his time what he should’ve understood is the evil of Satanism because Marxism derives from Satanism and Satanism, derived its desire to control everything and destroy everything
Excellent! Absolutely excellent!
This is also why the court was given no enforcement mechanism, but if the President jusy goes along with every ruling, it just ruins this mechanism.
It requires the elecutive to agree beflre anything happenes. Any unconstitutional ruling is supposed to be checked and unified by the other branches, the same way illegal laws are checked by the courts.
However, this has been completely forgotten. Otherwise, this case would have faded into history. Now, for some reason, people think the court has the final say in all things, what Jefferson called a "despotic oligarchy," despite the founders writing repeatedly about the dangers of a rogue judiciary, the courts being bound by the Constitution as well and not have any power to amend it, and the duty of the other branches to nullify illegal rulings.
What's hilarious is the anti federaljsts pointed to this EXACT thing happening as to why they didn't want to sign the Constitution as written and wanted amendments before ratification. Such ambiguous statements ALWAYS go into the government's favor. It is our nature.
The6 had similar problems with the "General Welfare" and "interstate commerce" clauses, and look at how those two have been abused too.