The Founding Fathers included the Necessary and Proper Clause in the U.S. Constitution, to provide Congress with the ability to meet the needs of a changing country. The clause is found in Article One.
The Founding Fathers included the Necessary and Proper Clause in the U.S. Constitution, to provide Congress with the ability to meet the needs of a changing country. The clause is found in Article One.
The Founding Fathers included the Necessary and Proper Clause in the U.S. Constitution, to provide Congress with the ability to meet the needs of a changing country. The clause is found in Article One.
The writers of the Constitution of the United States are often referred to as the Founding Fathers. Members of the Founding Fathers included Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison. George Washington is also included as the first President of the United States.
well i don't really know i just know that this was the Founding Fathers' "brilliant idea"
The Constitution was made up of many different parts- whatever Congress decided to throw in there was included.
The Articles of Confederation was the first form of government created for America before the US Constitution. The members of the Second Continental Congress approved the Articles for ratification, thus any of them can be considered witnesses. Congress members included Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, George Washington, and any of the Founding Fathers.
When the Founding Fathers drafted the Constitution after scrapping the Articles of Confederation, there were many fears and apprehension about a strong central government becoming corrupted and tyrannical.As a result, the drafters included numerous failsafes into the Constitution, such as a system of checks and balances, which allowed the different branches of government some form of power over each other so that no one branch becomes overwhelmingly strong.They also included a provision that made the Legislative Branch (Congress) a bicameral legislature, which also served to provide a checks and balance system between the two Houses of Congress. The Senate was initially intended to focus on the interests of the elite, whlie the House of Representatives focused on the interests of the masses.After the draft of the Constitution was put up for ratification, a surge of Anti-Federalism protested the document's lack of a Bill of Rights. In order to quell the Anti-Federalists' fears, the Founding Fathers included the first ten ammendments to the Constitution as the United States Bill of Rights.
Copyright laws had already been established in Great Britain for almost a century since then and its usefulness was undisputed, important enough to be kept for the US constitution.
The powers forbidden to the US Congress (and Federal Government in general) are listed in the US Constitution in a very simply fashion. Congress is permitted those powers specifically stated (and implied) in the Constitution. Powers not enumerated in the Constitution are reserved for the States, or for the People. So what is permitted to the Congress is listed, but not what is forbidden.
Congress' power to investigate comes from the Necessary and Proper Clause included in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. This clause allows Congress additional powers as needed such as during an impeachment proceeding.
Congress' power to investigate comes from the Necessary and Proper Clause included in Article 1, Section 8 of the US Constitution. This clause allows Congress additional powers as needed such as during an impeachment proceeding.
The so-called elastic clause (or "necessary and proper clause" was intended to allow the Congress to make the laws needed to carry out the powers enumerated in Article I, section eight of the Constitution and certain other parts of the Constitution. Like the "General Welfare" clause, it was not an unlimited, infinitely stretchable phrase, but was limited by what powers were actually delegated to the Congress and the government of the US by the Constitution. The Amendment process included in Article V of the constitution was the sole means the founding fathers intended that the people or the federal government, could use to change any part of the Constitution, including giving any powers to the government that it did not already possess under the constitution. Much of today's legislation is, therefore, totally unconstitutional.