Welcome to the year 2000.

Everyone, everywhere, is having fun, except me.

On BBC Eye Player.

I worry you're growing up too fast.

Yeah, we can't be your little ducky forever, can I?

Inspired by a true story.

You walk out of this house a boy.

One day you'll come back.

When you do, you will be a man.

I won't hold your breath. What it feels like

for a girl. I wish I could look like you. Baby, you can. Why don't you? Watch on BBC I

Player. Where does the government get its power? The answer, of course, is from the Constitution.

But if you search the text, you won't

find anything about the IRS or the Commerce Department or the Federal Reserve. So on what basis

do these government agencies exist? The answer is found in the 1819 Supreme Court case of

McCullough v. Maryland, the most important Supreme Court decision

nobody knows anything about. To understand it, we need to review a little history. After the

Revolutionary War, America's finances were a mess. In 1790, the first Treasury Secretary,

Alexander Hamilton, advocated for creating a national bank to help stabilize

the economy and restore the nation's shuddered credit. Opponents of the bank, most notably

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, argued that the Constitution didn't include any reference

to such an institution. To create one was, therefore, unconstitutional.

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