 What McCullough is battling against is Maryland's attempt to protect the people of its state from this corrupt central bank and You know McCullough sues say that the bank is constitutional the state has no right to interfere They're they're trying to place a tax on bank notes for banks not chartered in the state of Maryland Which only pertain to the second bank of the United States Are my details on there correct and King just talked a little bit about the Supreme Court case Yeah, absolutely. So this was a famous case that it was it was emerging. So this is the same McCullough who was embezzling He himself just basically refused to pay the tax and that's why it's called McCullough versus Maryland Basically Maryland was trying to tax the bank like it attacks its own state banks and saying that well The federal government is not above Maryland other states were doing this the second bank of the United States basically tells the states to go pound salt And saying no, we're not gonna pay and so this court case winds up in the Supreme Court And then you're getting the lovely John Marshall and veteran land speculator And former investment partner of Robert Morris a true crony among cronies. We had to fit Robert Morris and one more time I had to fit him in one more time. I can't let him go And he's deciding that he's ruling on this court case and you really get the whole cast of characters clay and Webster You know, they're defending the bank. You even get old Luther Martin Who's attacking the bank? He's a great anti-federalist Maryland anti-federalist is one of the few hardcore anti-federalist president at the Constitutional Convention the Luther Martin Though he had joined the Federalist Party simply because he hated Jefferson in Madison much like Patrick Henry He had spent his waning years still fighting government as well as Like he was also apparently a notorious alcoholic too So he's sort of attacking the bank in the court K in the court And I'm assuming just smells like alcohol and all of this and he's inebriated and everything, but he's got the right idea He just it's the thought that counts and you know, maybe he knows how to he knows how to drown his sorrows knowing Which way the government's going to go on this and so the Supreme Court basically rules that No, the states cannot tax the bank the bank is is the federal government the federal government is above the states and John Marshall an individual who owned stock in the bank. He sold it right before the court case But again, that's still like it's it's it's it's it's just really one of those little details You never hear about but like you like oh, okay, maybe that's like conflict of interest among many other things Basically says well the federal government can do whatever it wants So he used this I use this case as an opportunity to really flex the broad constructionist that old Hamiltonian interpretation of the US Constitution the interpretation that I would say is right and not that I agree with but I would say is actually what the Constitution was intended to do if you look at the Constitutional Convention debates and the ratification debates and you look at what Murray Rothbard wrote the fifth volume of conceived and Liberty And he basically says yeah, the federal government can do whatever once It's necessary and proper. It's it's it's it's everything under the Sun And really just the the federal government can't be touched Not only the bank, but just the federal government the federal government is supreme over the states And this is really a really big shock to a lot of people because they had seen some warning signs or some earlier Supreme Court cases, but this is truly people thought that okay the anti-federalists were right The US Constitution is this big government document that basically allows the government to do whatever it wants and It really kind of shook a lot of people into the states rights direction