Gary Lawson, Geoffrey P. Miller, Robert G. Natelson

The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause

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Produktbeschreibung

This book uses three independent lines of research to trace the origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781107663701
• ISBN-10: 1107663709
• Artikelnr.: 37780590

Autorenporträt

Gary Lawson is a Professor of Law and the Abraham and Lillian Benton Scholar at Boston University School of Law. Professor Lawson has authored (with Guy Seidman) The Constitution of Empire: Territorial Expansion and American Legal History, five editions of a casebook on Federal Administrative Law, and more than sixty articles in law reviews and other journals.

Inhaltsangabe

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.