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One of the most abused and misused clauses of the Constitution – and also one of the most ambiguous, even at the time of the founding – the so-called “sweeping clause.”
Path to Liberty: March 20, 2024
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Rob Natelson – The Agency Law Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause (2004)
James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (1 Dec 1787)
James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)
Oliver Ellsworth – A Landholder V (3 Dec 1787)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33 (3 Jan 1788)
James Madison – Federalist 44 (25 Jan 1788)
George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)
James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)
Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 June 1788)
John Williams – New York Ratifying Convention (26 June 1788)
John Williams – New York Ratifying Convention (27 June 1788)
3 views of Necessary and Proper
1. Necessary means indispensable
James Madison – Speech on the Bank Bill (2 Feb 1791)
Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)
2. Necessary means convenient
Episode – Necessary is Supposed to Mean Necessary
3. Somewhere in the middle
Edmund Randolph – Opinion on the Bank Bill (12 Feb 1791)
Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (17 June 1788)
Randy Barnett – The Original Meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause
Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)
Episode – Undefined Power: Antifederalist Federal Farmer No. 4-5
Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)
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