As a result of some former confederate states’ refusal to ratify the fourteenth amendment, congress established military rule in the south. congress changed the ratification process. those states reluctantly rejoined the union. the amendment was not ratified for many years.

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.

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