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 ...

Justice Breyer’s majority opinion concludes that the Necessary and Proper Clause gives Congress the power to enact the registration requirements set forth in the federal Sex Offender ...

When addressing President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, Gov. Wes Moore said that Maryland officials will follow the U.S.

The source of Congress’s power to spend derives from the Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) or, as some modern commentators aver, from Article I, Section 8 ...

But the very end of this list contained one more power: to make all laws “necessary and proper” to carry out the enumerated powers. Also known as the Elastic Clause, this phrase allowed ...