[robertpaulsen]

The national bank was set up under the power given to Congress under the Necessary and Proper Clause.

You're muddying things up with your Commerce Clause claptrap. Cool it.

[tacticalogic]

The national bank was set up under the power given to Congress under the Necessary and Proper Clause.

Then it wasn't an exercise in regulating commerce, and establishing the bank was in no way a refutation of Jefferson's arguments with regards to the Commerce Clause.

You're muddying things up with your Commerce Clause claptrap. Cool it.

What, you want to leave the Commerce Clause and the Constitutional issues out of it, and make it "just about the pot"?