| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Aggressive Nationalism: McCulloch v. Maryland and the Foundation of Federal Authority in the Young Republic. By Richard E. Ellis. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 265 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-19-532356-6.)
In Aggressive Nationalism, Richard E. Ellis provides a detailed account of one of the most important U.S. Supreme Court cases in the early nineteenth century, McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), or simply "the bank case." Subsequent events account for a great deal of the prominence of the case. Just over a decade after McCulloch, Andrew Jackson resuscitated the controversy over the Bank of the United States, vetoed a new charter for it, and denigrated John Marshall's opinion. That might have left it a dead letter, but McCulloch gained new traction after the Civil War. Marshall's expansive vision of congressional power was used, most notably, to justify aspects of the New Deal, securing the decision's place in the modern constitutional canon.	1
Ellis does not generally look ahead to McCulloch's legacy. His concern is with the events and context immediately surrounding the case in the Jeffersonian era. It was certainly recognized as an important case within that context and one that intersected with some of the central political movements of the period. Ellis is adept at using the story of McCulloch to illuminate the broader politics of the middle Jeffersonian era.	. . .

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