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The Congress Shall Have Power Essay

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The passage "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." belongs to the United States Constitution Article I, Section 8. To understand the meaning of this passage is important to explain the importance of the Constitution, and what meaning does it have for the people of the United States. The United States freed itself from its oppressive relationship with Great Britain when it won the Independence War. From that moment on, it was a free nation, but they needed to establish a system of government that would allow them to …show more content…

It leaves establish who within the government will have the power. This clause gives absolute control to the Congress in relation to the money that is generated within the United States, the money must be used to pay the debts and contribute in the creation of armies for the defense of the country, and be and there should be no differences in the United States. This section of the constitution created a controversy between Federalists and Anti Federalists. The Anti Federalists said that the constitution gave too much power to the government, the central government was too far away from the states to be aware of all the problems, and they could not trust in the use of the powers that the constitution gave. On the contrary the Federalists thought that this clause only allows the government to use the powers that it had already acquired through the Constitution. Federalist Hamilton, Jay and Madison created under the pseudonym of Publius, The Federalist Papers, are a series of essays and documents to influence the people in the ratification of the Constitution. (LEP,

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