Which of the following quotes best hypothesizes why the U.S. Constitution provided for the elastic clause?(1 point)
“The powers given by this article are very general and comprehensive, and it may receive a construction to justify the passing almost any law.”
“The legislative power is competent to lay taxes, duties, imposts, and excises; —there is no limitation to this power, unless it be said that the clause which directs the use to which those taxes, and duties shall be applied.”
“A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind.”
“This government is to possess absolute and uncontroulable power, legislative, executive and judicial, with respect to every object to which it extends.”
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