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 ...

The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article. Following the pattern of the Necessary and Proper Clause of Article I, Section 8, the ...