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The first Continental Congress met in 1774 with 12 of the 13 colonies in response  to the Intolerable Act that had been passed by British Parliament. The British called it the Coercive Act, which they had intended to use as punishment on Massachusetts for the Boston Tea Party.

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.