The Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause - Brossura

Lawson, Gary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1107663709 ISBN 13: 9781107663701

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Riassunto

The Necessary and Proper Clause is one of the most important parts of the US Constitution. Today this short thirty-nine-word paragraph is cited as the legal foundation for much of the modern federal government. 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.

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The Necessary and Proper Clause is one of the most important parts of the US Constitution. Yet constitutional scholars have pronounced its origins and original meaning a mystery. Through three independent lines of research, the authors of this book trace its origins in law-governing agencies, public administration, and corporations.

L'autore:

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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107663709
• ISBN 13: 9781107663701
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 190