The net effect of the Supreme Court decisions in McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden was ______.
A. reversing its ruling in Marbury v. Madison
B. protecting the policy responsibilities of the states via the Tenth Amendment
C. restructuring the meaning of the Seventeenth Amendment
D. creating a powerful precedent that allowed future national policy to develop free of the constraints of state prerogatives
Answer: D
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