When conducting research for a thesis paper, what is the best way to determine the author’s point of view?

a. analyze the relevance and publication date of the source.
b. determine the author’s relationship to the particular topic.
c. establish how much evidence the author has referenced.
d. create a venn diagram to compare the author’s main idea.
e. read the topic sentence of each paragraph.

A. Analyze the relevance and publication date of the source.

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.

monopolies  came to the united states with the colonial administration. the large-scale public works needed to make the new world hospitable to old world immigrants required large companies to carry them out. these companies were granted exclusive contracts for these works by the colonial administrators. even after the american revolution, many of these colonial holdovers still functioned due to the contracts and land

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