USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Both cases involve implied powers: Licensing boats (Gibbons) and chartering a national bank (McCulloch). In both cases, the Interstate Commerce Clause is used at least in part as the justification for the implied power.

Detailed explanation-2: -In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) he contended that a state could not tax a federal agency (a branch of the Bank of the United States), for the power to tax was a “power to destroy.” In Gibbons v. Ogden (1824) he argued that a state could not encroach upon the congressional power to regulate interstate commerce.

Detailed explanation-3: -Marbury v. Madison is important because it established the power of judicial review for the U.S. Supreme Court and lower federal courts with respect to the Constitution and eventually for parallel state courts with respect to state constitutions.

Detailed explanation-4: -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. Marshall ruled in favor of the Federal Government and concluded, “the power to tax involves the power to destroy."