The was the first form if government for the 13 colonies after the american revolution but was replaced due to the weakness of the federal government

The first colonial legislature was the Virginia House of Burgesses, established in 1619.

The case was a u.s. supreme court decision that defined the scope of the u.s. congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of american state legislatures. the dispute in mcculloch involved the legality of the national bank and a tax that the state of maryland imposed on it.