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"""Invaluable to students of the period.""--Maryland Historical Magazine ""An excellent and much needed book on M'Culloch.""--American Journal of Legal History ""Killenbeck provides a clear, well-written and reasonably balanced history of M'Culloch for general readers, and for that purpose the book can be recommended without hesitation.""--Journal of the Early Republic ""A comprehensive and lucid account of the constitutional debate surrounding the Bank of the United States during the early years of the Republic.. . . . This is a fine work that brings every thread of M'Culloch v. Maryland into a single volume. As an example of legal argument that combines politics, structural analysis, precedent, and pragmatic considerations, the debate over the Bank of the United States should be part of every constitutional law curriculum.""--Law and History Review ""Killenbeck is eminently qualified to prepare this case study. . . . This is the famous 1819 Supreme Court decision that helped to expand congressional power through the 'implied powers doctrine, ' also referred to as the 'necessary and proper clause.' . . . The writing style is clear and lucid. Recommended.""--Choice ""Killenbeck's lively and informative study authoritatively demonstrates why M'Culloch v. Maryland is the Supreme Court's foundational case in defining the nature of the Constitution and the scope of federal powers.""--Charles F. Hobson, author of The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law and editor of The Papers of John Marshall ""An engagingly written and well-researched survey that demonstrates the formative and fundamental influence that M'Culloch continues to exert over American constitutional doctrine.""--Herbert A. Johnson, author of The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801-1835 ""A much-needed book-length account of one of the Supreme Court's most influential decisions.""--Kent Newmyer, author of John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court"

Killenbeck's lively and informative study authoritatively demonstrates why M'Culloch v. Maryland is the Supreme Court's foundational case in defining the nature of the Constitution and the scope of federal powers. -- Charles F. Hobson

""Invaluable to students of the period.""--Maryland Historical Magazine ""An excellent and much needed book on M'Culloch.""--American Journal of Legal History ""Killenbeck provides a clear, well-written and reasonably balanced history of M'Culloch for general readers, and for that purpose the book can be recommended without hesitation.""--Journal of the Early Republic ""A comprehensive and lucid account of the constitutional debate surrounding the Bank of the United States during the early years of the Republic.. . . . This is a fine work that brings every thread of M'Culloch v. Maryland into a single volume. As an example of legal argument that combines politics, structural analysis, precedent, and pragmatic considerations, the debate over the Bank of the United States should be part of every constitutional law curriculum.""--Law and History Review ""Killenbeck is eminently qualified to prepare this case study. . . . This is the famous 1819 Supreme Court decision that helped to expand congressional power through the 'implied powers doctrine, ' also referred to as the 'necessary and proper clause.' . . . The writing style is clear and lucid. Recommended.""--Choice ""Killenbeck's lively and informative study authoritatively demonstrates why M'Culloch v. Maryland is the Supreme Court's foundational case in defining the nature of the Constitution and the scope of federal powers.""--Charles F. Hobson, author of The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law and editor of The Papers of John Marshall ""An engagingly written and well-researched survey that demonstrates the formative and fundamental influence that M'Culloch continues to exert over American constitutional doctrine.""--Herbert A. Johnson, author of The Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, 1801-1835 ""A much-needed book-length account of one of the Supreme Court's most influential decisions.""--Kent Newmyer, author of John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court

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Mark R. Killenbeck is Wylie H. Davis Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Arkansas. His articles have appeared in journals such as the Supreme Court Review, California Law Review, and Michigan Law Review.

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