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The necessary and proper clause perversion
Doesn’t the ‘necessary & proper’ clause’ (“elastic clause” or “sweeping clause”) allow Congress to make any laws which the people in Congress think are ‘necessary & proper’?”
NO, IT DOES NOT!
Here it is – Article 1, Sec. 8, last clause: “To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into…