Which answer best describes an important outcome of the gibbons v. ogden court case?
a) the case set definitions for navigation and placed state control over all coastal and river trade.
b) the case set definitions for navigation and placed federal control over all coastal and river trade.
c) the case set the precedent for congress to override a federal law when it conflicts with a state law.
d) the case set the precedent for congress to override a state law when it conflicts with a federal law.

The answer is A: The case set definitions for navigation and placed federal control over all coastal and river trade.

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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.