In the Case of McCulloch V

In the case of McCulloch v. Maryland, the Supreme Court led by Chief Justice John Marshall upheld the right of the national government to create a bank based on which of the following?

A) The authority to create the bank was expressly enumerated as a governmental power in the Constitution.
B) the elastic clause in the Constitution
C) his hostility to the Federalist view of government relations
D) Maryland's previous waiver of its sovereign right to prohibit the bank's establishment