Definition: named after a president, this policy held that the united states would aid any nation in resisting the growing threat of communism and became the guiding force of american foreign policy during the cold war.

Truman Doctrine

In 1947, Truman pledged that the US would aid any nation in resisting the growing threat of communism to help prevent its spread.

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.