The new government could order individuals to pay taxes.

Any one who refused to pay his tax would be tried in a United States court and compelled to pay or go to prison.
In the second place the old government had almost no executive powers.
The new government would have a very strong executive in the person of the President of the United States.
[Sidenote: Interpretation of the Constitution.] [Sidenote: John Marshall's decisions.] 188.

The Supreme Court .-- But the greatest difference of all was to be found in the Supreme Court of the United States provided in the Constitution.

The new Congress would have very large powers of making laws.

But the words defining these powers were very hard to understand.
It was the duty of the Supreme Court to say what these words meant.