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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gov. Wes Moore said Maryland will follow the Constitution on immigration policy. Here’s what the Constitution says.