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| the ability of courts to exclude evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
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| advantages and disadvantages of the federal system |
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advantages: power is divided, national government has limits on what it can do, states have made many decisions which could have been too divisive for the nation.
disadvantages: states have done most of the federal governing, difficult to determine when national government should intervene. |
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| those who favored strong state governments and a weak national government. |
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| Bank of the United States in McCulloch v. Maryland |
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| the case questioned whether Congress had the power to charter a national bank; the Court ruled in favor of the national government allowing them to charter the bank. |
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