Which principle was established for the first time by the US Supreme Court in deciding McCulloch vs. Maryland Case?

Option 4 : Supremacy of the Federal Government over the States

One of the first and most important Supreme Court cases on federal power is McCulloch v. Maryland (1819).

• Thomas Jefferson, the new government had to deal with after the United States was founded as the nation's debt accrued during the Revolutionary War. 
• Mcculloch vs. Maryland case is about the secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton devised a scheme to establish the Bank of the United States as a national bank to absorb state debts incurred during the war and to establish a national currency.
• The Court was attempting to answer two questions in McCulloch v. Maryland:
  • Was Congress authorized by the Constitution to form the bank?
  • Is Maryland law an illegal encroachment on congressional authority?
• McCulloch versus Maryland, Chief Justice John Marshall upheld the constitutional notion of Congress's implied powers.
• It was ruled that Congress possessed not only the specific powers provided by the constitution but also all appropriate authority to carry out those functions.
• It established that the United States has a strong central government and that federal law has power over state law was established and reaffirmed.

Thus, the Supremacy of the Federal Government over the States was principle established for the first time by the US Supreme Court in deciding McCulloch vs. Maryland Case.