"Slavery now stands erect, clanking its chains on the territory of Kansas, surrounded by a code of death, and trampling upon all cherished liberties." –Senator Charles Sumner, 1856. Which of the following groups was Senator Charles Sumner criticizing in the above speech?

A) free-soilers

B) the Supreme Court

C) John Brown and his followers

D) proslavery settlers in Kansas & Missouri

d. migration of french settlers into english colonies

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.