By including the Necessary and Proper Clause at the conclusion of Article I, Section 8, the Framers set the criteria for laws that, even if they are not within the terms of other grants ...

Anyone interested in the scope of Congress’s power under the Necessary and Proper Clause will want to study today’s opinion in U.S. v. Kibodeaux. Justice Breyer’s majority opinion concludes ...

if not by the Necessary and Proper Clause, to prescribe oaths for the states. Congress’s argument was that the Constitution, by requiring public officials to be “bound by Oath or Affirmation ...