Commerce Clause
CLEP American Government, Chapter 6 Commerce Clause Congress may regulate commerce among states, with foreign nations, and with tribes. The power reaches many interstate economic activities but does not create a general federal police power. Modern doctrine distinguishes channels of interstate commerce, instrumentalities and persons or things in commerce, and intrastate economic activity with a […]
Necessary and Proper Clause
CLEP American Government, Chapter 6 Necessary and Proper Clause In federalism, the Necessary and Proper Clause permits Congress to choose appropriate means for executing enumerated powers, potentially affecting state authority. Under McCulloch, the end must be legitimate and the means plainly adapted to it and constitutionally permissible; the clause is not a general police power. […]
