Sentence examples for enumerated power from inspiring English sources

The clause gives Congress the right "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution" its other powers Justice Stephen G. Breyer, writing for himself and four other justices, said the clause provided Congress with the needed authority as long as the statute in question was "rationally related to the implementation of a constitutionally enumerated power".

"This case is about limits to an enumerated power," he said, adding that if the latest extension was permissible, "there is no limit" to Congress's ability to extend copyright terms.

"The necessary-and-proper clause does not provide a safe sanctuary," Judge Hudson wrote, because it "may only be constitutionally deployed when tethered to a lawful exercise of an enumerated power".

The middle man is irrelevant to whether or not business has been done between the publisher and I. Likewise, if I cut a check to the government and the government cuts a check to Raytheon, I did business with Raytheon.So then we're left with the first point: that there is an enumerated power to tax, but no explicit grant of power to make people do business with private companies.

Another enumerated power under Article I, section 8, is the power "to regulate Commerce..."...

I guess my challenge is to anybody that asks, show me the enumerated power.

Justice Clarence Thomas predictably says that Washington is over-stepping its enumerated powers.

He thought that only measures indispensable to the discharge of enumerated powers should be allowed, not merely those that might prove convenient.

On his new campaign Web site, he pledged to focus on a smaller government that "can perform its constitutionally enumerated powers".

He advanced the argument that the Constitution was the source of implied as well as enumerated powers and that through implication the government had the right to charter a national bank as a proper means of regulating the currency.

Madison steadfastly maintained that there was no need for it because the Constitution consisted only of enumerated powers.