On what ground did Hamilton defend the power to create a national bank?

1. Jefferson objected that the Constitution enumerates the federal powers and reserves the rest to the states. 2. Nowhere, he said, was the government empowered to set up a bank. 3. Hamilton answered that the mass of necessary detail made full enumeration impossible. 4. A vast body of powers therefore had to be implied by general clauses. 5. One such clause let Congress make all laws necessary and proper for carrying out granted powers. 6. Since the government could tax, pay debts and borrow money, a bank would help it do so efficiently. 7. Washington and the Congress accepted that view, establishing a precedent. 8. An express listing of the bank is precisely what Jefferson showed was missing. _Source: An Outline of American History (U.S. Information Agency, 1990, public domain), section TWO ENDURING VIEWPOINTS COMPETE_