Aman is sentenced to five years in prison for walking across his neighbor’s lawn. in this example, we can say that the punishment is

a )disproportionate to the crime.

b )appropriate to the crime.

c) not severe enough for the crime.

d) along the lines of what the founders had in mind.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.

in mcculloch v. maryland (1819) the supreme court ruled that congress had implied powers under the necessary and proper clause of article i, section 8 of the constitution to create the second bank of the united states and that the state of maryland lacked the power to tax the bank.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.

because it took place after the war of 1812 had come to an end.