Marshal Court's

The Supreme Court has acted as a partisan political body instead of enforcing the constitution. Throughout the period of 1800 – 1830 the Marshall court was in order. Where John Marshall took over, and was high in most people’s eyes. Yet there was a major flaw. Most of his decisions in the court cases were bias, and more in favor of Federalist ideas and views. People are, by nature, bias. It takes remarkable training and will power to overcome ones natural prejudices. Take the McCulloch vs. Maryland case for example. Maryland enacted a law imposing taxes on all banks not registered by the state. While this happened the Second Bank of the United States was created in 1816 Act reregistering the BUS. The cashier, McCulloch, of the Boston branch of the BUS issued bank notes without obeying the Maryland law. The state sued McCulloch for not paying his taxes, and the state court sided with Maryland. While McCulloch wanted the Supreme Court to get involve. This case shows that John Marshall is in favor of the Federalists. The ruling says that the State of Maryland does not have the power to tax an institution created by Congress pursuant to its powers under the Constitution. This ruling protects a central government view, and keeps the power within this government. This biasness is also shown in 1824 at the Gibbons vs. Ogden trial. The steam boat had skyrocketed as a fast transport across rivers. So Fulton’s steamboat, the North River Steamboat, received exclusive, long term rights to operate and license all steam-powered ferryboat on the Hudson River. Yet there was competition when Gibbons took people to New York City from a small town of Elizabethtown. Ogden, an operator who had a license from Livingston, asked that the state court would forbid Gibbons from doing his business. Gibbons, though, appealed to the Supreme Court, and won. The ruling was that only federal government has the right to regulate interstate commerce as part of the power given in the Commerce