Constitutional Minute

The necessary and proper clause perversion

Doesn’t the ‘necessary & proper’ clause’ (“elastic clause” or “sweeping clause”) allow Congress to make any laws which the people in Congress think are ‘necessary & proper’?”

NO, IT DOES NOT!

Here it is – Article 1, Sec. 8, last clause: “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all oth…