necessary and proper laws

necessary and proper laws
As a matter of the constitutional authority of Congress to pass laws:–not only such measures as are absolutely and indispensably necessary, without which the powers granted must fail of execution; but all appropriate means conducive or adapted to the end to be accomplished, and which in the judgment of Congress will most advantageously effect it. Legal Tender Case, 110 US 421, 28 L Ed 204, 4 S Ct 122.

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