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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)

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McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) held that Congress may charter a national bank under the elastic clause and that a state may not tax it.

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One decision, two doctrines: implied national powers upheld, state interference with federal instruments barred.

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The holding reads the elastic and supremacy clauses together.