McWILLIAMS, Senior Circuit Judge.
This case has its roots in McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. (4 Wheaton) 316, 4 L.Ed. 579 (1819). In McCulloch, the Supreme Court held that under the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution, Article VI, clause 2, a law passed by the state legislature of Maryland imposing a tax on a branch of the Bank of the United States located in Maryland was "unconstitutional and void." In so doing, Chief Justice Marshall...
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