USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819) States cannot interfere with the federal government when it uses its implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause to further its express constitutional powers. The U.S. Congress created the Second Bank of the United States in 1816.

Detailed explanation-2: -The court decided that the Federal Government had the right and power to set up a Federal bank and that states did not have the power to tax the Federal Government.

Detailed explanation-3: -It found that a tax imposed by the state of Maryland on the Bank’s branch in the state was unconstitutional as a violation of the Supremacy Clause. Moreover, the Court held that Congress was given the power to establish a federal bank based on the “necessary and proper clause” of the Constitution.

Detailed explanation-4: -In a unanimous decision, the Court held that Congress had the power to incorporate the bank and that Maryland could not tax instruments of the national government employed in the execution of constitutional powers.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Supreme Court found that federal law had supremacy, or authority, over state laws and that states could not interfere with federal powers.