Answer the following questions in a couple of paragraphs. Support your statements with appropriate evidence. Anti-Federalists chose to ratify the Constitution largely because of the promise of a bill of individual rights. However, they
still feared that a federal system would become too powerful. Did the federal government grow too powerful under the
Washington and Adams administrations? If so, what are some specific examples where this happened? Or did the
Federalists manage to avoid the kinds of abuses the Anti-Federalists feared? What are some examples?

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.

wait history, who want to talk about history, boring.