What does ida b. wells refer to as the national crime of america?

Ida B. Wells thinks that the national crime of America is lynching. She calls it lynch law and even Judge Lynch, making a noun from the verb. It is an unwritten law that justifies men "in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal"

in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.

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i think a judge or jury, as they preside over the court and is the central figure in a trial.

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