We have finally learned that while the MLBPA did employ a similar, but more complex version of that argument during the proceedings, that MLB could discipline Rodriguez via clause Section 7.G.2 which says that they can be subjected to "disciplinary action for just cause…" That clause allows MLB to create a punishment they believes fits the crime, or in this case, crimes.
Another 'extraordinary clause' (section 29) in the Act is the presumption of guilt of the accused, until proven innocent.
The government charged Manning under the information clause (section e) of the Espionage Act, which requires prosecutors to prove that Bradley had "reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation".
The Bankruptcy Clause – Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 of the Constitution – is something of an oddball.
Compact Clause, Article I, section 10, clause 3 under which it creates an enforceable compact.
Although little remembered today, during the Civil War, President Lincoln and Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase used the constitution's coinage clause (Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5) to "coin Money" (case structure in the original Constitution), specifically, the country's first Legal Tender: United States Notes.
The authors of the Constitution, however, did have insight into the potential abuse of the office of President, and they inserted something called the Emoluments Clause into Section 9 of Article I.
A potential challenge to him could come via the "emoluments clause", Article I, Section 9 of the constitution, which prohibits public officials from taking payments "of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state".
The elastic, or necessary and proper, clause (Article I, Section 8, paragraph 18) states that Congress shall have the authority "To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution" the various powers vested in the national government.
In addition, the Constitution included a similar writ in the Suspension Clause, Article 1, Section 9: "The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it".
