The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause
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- Authors:
- Gary Lawson, Boston University School of Law
- Geoffrey P. Miller, New York University School of Law
- Robert G. Natelson, University of Montana School of Law
- Guy I. Seidman, University of Herzilya, Israel
- Date Published: July 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521119580
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The Necessary and Proper Clause is one of the most important parts of the U.S. Constitution. Today this short thirty-nine word paragraph is cited as the legal foundation for much of the modern federal government. Yet constitutional scholars have pronounced its origins and original meaning a mystery. Through three independent lines of research, the authors trace the lineage of the Necessary and Proper Clause to the everyday law of the Founding Era – the same law that American founders such as Madison, Hamilton, and Washington applied in their daily lives. Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause are found in law governing agencies, public administration, and corporations. Moreover, all of those areas were undergirded by common principles of fiduciary responsibility – reflecting the Founders' view that a public office is truly a public trust. This explains the choice of language in the clause and provides clues about its meaning. This book thus serves as a reference source for scholars seeking to understand the intellectual foundations of one of the Constitution’s most important clauses.
Read more- This is the only book devoted to the intellectual origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause
- The book combines three independent lines of research that all intersect at key points
- Explores the origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause by looking to legal doctrines often ignored by constitutional scholars: agency law, administrative law, and corporate law
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- Date Published: July 2010
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521119580
- length: 190 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 16 mm
- weight: 0.48kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Raiders of the lost clause: excavating the buried foundations of the Necessary and Proper Clause
2. Discretionary grants in eighteenth-century English legislation
3. An ocean away: eighteenth-century drafting in England and America
4. The legal origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause
5. The framing and adoption of the Necessary and Proper Clause
6. Necessity, propriety, and reasonableness
7. The corporate law background of the Necessary and Proper Clause.
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