The Supreme Court's decisions in both McCulloch v. Maryland and Cohens v. Virginia were very controversial in their day. Yet, in the first, the Court only agreed to accept an institution that Congress had already established; in the second, Virginia actually won on the merits. Why then would certain political groups have found Marshall's opinions in these two cases highly troubling?

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The Answer of The Supreme Court's decisions in both McCulloch v. Maryland and Cohens v. Virginia were very controversial in their day. Yet, in the first, the Court only agreed to accept an institution that Congress had already established; in the second, Virginia actually won on the merits. Why then would certain political groups have found Marshall's opinions in these two cases highly troubling?

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