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Article V Legislative Compendium | Article V Legislative Compendium | ||
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====== State Initiation of Constitutional Amendments: ====== | ====== State Initiation of Constitutional Amendments: ====== | ||
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Professor of Law (ret.) \\ | Professor of Law (ret.) \\ | ||
The University of Montana \\ | The University of Montana \\ | ||
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===== Foreword by Michael Farris ===== | ===== Foreword by Michael Farris ===== | ||
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===== Executive Summary ===== | ===== Executive Summary ===== | ||
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===== Table of Contents ===== | ===== Table of Contents ===== | ||
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===== Part I. Sources, " | ===== Part I. Sources, " | ||
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The Necessary and Proper Clause appears in Article I, Section 8 at the end of an (incomplete) list of congressional powers. It reads: | The Necessary and Proper Clause appears in Article I, Section 8 at the end of an (incomplete) list of congressional powers. It reads: | ||
- | 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 Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.((# | + | 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 Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.((# |
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To be sure, all of these persons and entities receive their authority from the Constitution and therefore are said to exercise " | To be sure, all of these persons and entities receive their authority from the Constitution and therefore are said to exercise " | ||
- | For this reason the Necessary and Proper Clause does not encompass the independent assemblies empowered by Article V, even if, like Congress, they serve as part of government when acting in other capacities.((# | + | For this reason the Necessary and Proper Clause does not encompass the independent assemblies empowered by Article V, even if, like Congress, they serve as part of government when acting in other capacities.((# |
Another grant of power to Congress to act in an independent capacity—that is, outside its normal role as the legislature of the U.S. Government—is | Another grant of power to Congress to act in an independent capacity—that is, outside its normal role as the legislature of the U.S. Government—is |
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