Bank of the United States
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banks · the bank · the bank of the United States · bank law · banking · banking corporations · corporation property · mother bank of the United States · our banking corporations · state banks
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Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The federally chartered national bank, whose renewed constitutionality was upheld by the Supreme Court and which the work treats as an example of unwarranted inferred power.
It is convenient for the transmission of taxes, that congress should create banks;
—That gigantick institution, the Bank of the United States, which, while yet in the green tree, was proclaimed by the republicans a breach of the constitution, “stands now upon its bond;
By taxing state banks, congress has acknowledged the injustice of exempting corporate property from taxation.