What were two things severely hurting the soviet economy just prior to its fall?
a. the agricultural and manufacturing sectors were not meeting peoples' needs.
b. it was in the middle of fighting a protracted and unwinnable war in pakistan.
c. falling oil prices caused loss of income for the soviet union export business.
d. russia had managed to find itself in a major trade deficit, which proved unhealthy.

both are true, the congress does have the power to create banks, even if this power is not specifically described in the constitution, since there is nothing restricting it and there is power given to the congress to make "all laws which shall be necessary and proper". maryland was not allowed to tax a branch of the national bank operating there, and the supreme court decided that no state could. both of these topics were discussed in a decision of the mcculloch v. maryland case in 1819.

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