"“when peoples were conquered, incorporated into provinces, and, in the due course of time, became part of an integrated empire, this entailed a process of ethnic disintegration and decomposition"

Colonization/colonialism. This happened to the native americans. 

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.