Flashcard sets with a 'mcculloch v. maryland' term meaning 'a decision of the supreme court written by chief justice john marshall in 1819 which held that the power of the federal government flows from the people and should be generously construed so that any laws "necessary and proper" to the attainment of constitutional ends are permissible, and that federal law is supreme over state law even to the point that the state may not tax an enterprise (such as a bank) created by the federal government.'

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