Sentence examples for elastic clause from inspiring English sources
It's an elastic clause, given that it's hard to see the future, and could be used to shut down efforts to empty the camp.
If there was an opposite of contemporary urban street culture, it might go a little something like this Regents classic: "Which idea did the founding fathers include in the Constitution that allows Congress to meet the needs of a changing society? 1) federalism 2) separation of powers 3) the elastic clause 4) states' rights".
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.
Beginning with FDR, wily statists justified the massive expansion of federal power under ever more elastic definitions of the commerce clause.
These decisions reflect judicial recognition that the commerce clause is not infinitely elastic and that, by enumerating its powers, the framers denied Congress the type of general police power that is freely exercised by the states.
(The clause modifies play).
