Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy: Politics and Law in the Early American Republic

by Eric Lomazoff

Book Overview

The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our standard account of the national bank controversy, however, is incomplete. The controversy was much more dynamic than a two-sided debate over a single constitutional provision and was shaped as much by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022657945X
• ISBN13: 9780226579450
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"