Sentence examples for proper clause from inspiring English sources

Treaties and the Necessary and Proper Clause.

The "necessary and proper clause" allows Congress to pass any legislation it deems necessary and proper.

Surely, when read with the Necessary and Proper Clause, the conclusion must follow.

This cannot be justified under either the Commerce Clause or the Necessary and Proper Clause.

This power derives from the conjunction of the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause.

And there are other restraints upon the Necessary and Proper Clause authority.

"The necessary-and-proper clause is always lurking in these commerce clause cases".

Justice Scalia, while agreeing, wrote that the case should have hung on the necessary-and-proper clause.

The judge, however, agreed with Virginia's attorney general that the necessary-and-proper clause could not prop up an otherwise unconstitutional provision.

That prompted online rebuttals from a number of legal scholars who argued that Judge Hudson's misreading would render the necessary-and-proper clause meaningless.

The necessary-and-proper clause sits at the end of Article I, Section 8, after 17 paragraphs that enumerate the powers delegated to Congress, ranging from the establishment of post offices to the declaration of war.