This chinese thinker's beliefs were adopted by the han dynasty and used as part of a civil service examination to gain employment in the government. ch'in confucius liu pang lao tzu

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.

in the 1950s, country music came into its own before rock-n-roll took off in the 60s while jazz and classical music continued to innovate