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Where I ask, she says, have the people gone?

And what has become of their powers?

Music What a job, right? You're just a bank cashier. You're minding accounts. You're handling people's deposits,

making sure everything on the ledger adds up. It's not your money in the bank. Not most of it.

And then suddenly, you're the one who gets sued by the state and the case is taken all the way to the Supreme Court.

And your name is on one of the most important Supreme Court cases in United States.

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slash calm. That's James McCallick. That's what happens to him. He's not a politician. He's not a famous lawyer.

He's just a guy at the desk, at the bank, when the state of Maryland tries to tax that bank,

and because he doesn't have any policy on record to pay Maryland-day tax, he says no.

Well, the Second Bank of the United States was a controversial institution from the start.

It had been created in the early beginnings of the American Republic.

Alexander Hamilton is part of that.

And then it was closed down and it was reopened after the war of 1812 and 1818 when they needed money.

This is how it works.

The second bank of the United States was controlled by private stockholders, but it was the

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