When George Washington asked Alexander Hamilton to defend the constitutionality of the First Bank of the United States against the protests of Thomas Jefferson See more

This theory has flown from domestic constitutional law to International law, and European Union institutions have accepted the basics of the implied powers theory. See more

Later, directly borrowing from Hamilton, Chief Justice John Marshall invoked the implied powers of government in the United States Supreme Court case, McCulloch v. Maryland. In 1816, the United States Congress passed legislation creating the See more

• Substantive due process, implicit due process rights See more