USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Supreme Court, however, decided that the chartering of a bank was an implied power of the Constitution, under the “elastic clause, ” which granted Congress the authority to “make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution” the work of the Federal Government.

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: -In McCulloch, Chief Justice John Marshall wrote that the supremacy clause unequivocally states that the “Constitution, and the Laws of the United States … shall be the supreme Law of the Land.”

Detailed explanation-4: -In this Commerce Clause case, the Supreme Court affirmed Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce, and held that by virtue of the Supremacy Clause, state laws “must yield” to constitutional acts of Congress.

Detailed explanation-5: -Additionally, the Supremacy Clause in the Constitution makes federal laws supreme to state laws, and thus prohibits states from enacting laws contrary to federal laws. Consequently, Maryland’s tax was unconstitutional.