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"The Power to Destroy": A Chat with Clyde Ray about McCulloch V Maryland

Dyreng and Hoopes Season 1 Episode 121

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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."