Because it is not word for word. It can be interpreted different ways by different people.true
Article I, Section 8 is not called the Elastic Clause. The Elastic Clause is part of that Section, contained in its last paragraph.
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It is called Elastic Clause because it can be stretched like elastic.
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article one section eight, it is clause #18
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Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 - the so-called "elastic clause" or "necessary and proper clause."
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Elastic clause is a statement in the U.S. Constitution granting Congress the power to pass all laws.
The Elastic Clause Rticle 1 section 8 of the United States Constitution has only 18 clauses.
the elastic clause was created so the government could make things that the constition did'nt allow. like the air force.