How did slavery issue could affect statehood for Texas

Texas was wholly Southern in its attitude towards slavery. Technically, slavery had been illegal under Mexican law. However, the Mexicans were never effective in preventing American slave owners from bringing slaves to Texas, and slave smuggling was a lucrative business along the Texas coast.

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.

gibbons v. ogden, (1824), was a landmark decision in which the supreme court of the united states held that the power to regulate interstate commerce, granted to congress by the commerce clause of the united states constitution, encompassed the power to regulate navigation.