Which of the following documents was important to convincing the american colonists to break away from britain?
a) magna carta
b) mayflower compact
c) english bill of rights
d) paine's common sense

The case was a u.s. supreme court decision that defined the scope of the u.s. congress's legislative power and how it relates to the powers of american state legislatures. the dispute in mcculloch involved the legality of the national bank and a tax that the state of maryland imposed on it.