Question

In McCulloch v. Maryland, what did the State of Maryland argue?

Banks cannot be created by Congress.
States can determine which institutions within its borders must pay taxes.
A federal bank must pay taxes to the state in which it is located.
Banks may only be created by Congress, not by individ

Answer 1

They argued that the national bank was not beyond state authority — specifically that a federal bank must pay taxes to the state in which it is located (and more broadly that states could tax institutions within their borders and that Congress lacked authority to create the bank).