“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
The Constitution is many things, but at its most basic level it is a document conveying enumerated powers from a principal (“We the People”) to identified agents. Like most other Founding-era enumerated power documents, the Constitution’s expressly-listed powers...
The Constitution’s Necessary and Proper Clause (Article I, Section 8, Clause 18) provides: The Congress shall have Power . . . To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this...
