How did democratic-republicans react to the alien and sedition acts? a. they supported the acts by voting for them in congress. b. they opposed them by charging that they were unconstitutional. c. they remained neutral about them, ignoring them until they expired.

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.