What was the importance of the navigation acts?
a. the navigation acts controlled all colonial trade.
b. the navigation acts permitted the colonial ships from trading with certain countries.
c. the navigation acts set limits to what the colonists were allowed trade with others.
d. the navigation acts forced the colonists to pay an addition tax on imported goods.

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.