necessary and proper clause
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Clause 18 of Section 8 of Article I of the United States Constitution, granting to Congress the power to make all laws which shall be "necessary and proper for carrying into execution" specific powers granted to Congress in preceding clauses of the section.
Ballentine's law dictionary.
Anderson, W.S..
1998.
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