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McCulloch v. Maryland: ruled that states could tax the federal goveornment
Maryland wanted to tax the National Bank, but John Marshall (Supreme Court Justice) ruled that states could not tax a federal association.
McCulloch v. Maryland, 17 U.S. 316 (1819)The US Supreme Court ruled the State of Maryland could not levy a tax against the Second Bank of the United States by invoking the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18).
Article Six of the United States Constitution states that the law and treaties of the United States made in accordance with as the supreme law of land. In McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court ruled against states to control or direct the affairs of federal institutions.
One of the earliest examples of the Supreme Court ruling that a state law violated the constitution under the Supremacy Clause came in the landmark McCulloch v. Maryland (1819), wherein the court ruled that the state of Maryland could not tax the Second Bank of the United States, establishing the principle that the states could not tax the federal government. taken directly from http://www.answers.com/topic/supremacy-clause
The Court ruled that the federal government had implied powers under the "elastic clause" in the Constitution. -Gnapinski88
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In McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) the Supreme Court ruled that Congress had implied powers under the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution to create the Second Bank of the United States and that the state of Maryland lacked the power to tax the Bank.Arguably Chief Justice John Marshall's finest opinion, McCulloch not only gave Congress broad discretionary power to implement the enumerated powers, but also repudiated, in ringing language, the radical states' rights arguments presented by counsel for Maryland.
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The Court ruled that the Espionage Act was constitutional.
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