Mcculloch V Maryland Supreme Court Decision. McCulloch brought suit against the state of Maryland. Furthermore the Court declared that no state had the right to impose a tax on the federal bank ruling in favor of McCulloch who refused to pay Marylands tax.
This court case resulted in the decision that established the supremacy of the Constitution the expansion of Congress powers beyond those enumerated and the inferior status of state laws in relation to federal laws. McCulloch then appealed to the United States Supreme Court. Congresss legislative power and how it relates to the powers of American state legislaturesThe dispute in McCulloch involved the legality of the national bank and a tax that the state of Maryland imposed on it.
Supreme Court decision that defined the scope of the US.
McCulloch brought suit against the state of Maryland. The question submitted to the court for their decision in this case is as to the validity of the said act of the general assembly of Maryland on the ground of its being repugnant to the constitution of the United States and the act of congress aforesaid or to one of them. This court case resulted in the decision that established the supremacy of the Constitution the expansion of Congress powers beyond those enumerated and the inferior status of state laws in relation to federal laws. This case was decided in 1818.