Question

In 1-2 sentences, explain the Anti-Federalist objections to the necessary and proper clause and the supremacy clause.

Answer 1

Anti-Federalists feared the Necessary and Proper Clause would serve as an "elastic" grant letting Congress stretch its enumerated powers into virtually anything it claimed was necessary, undermining written limits on national authority. They objected to the Supremacy Clause because making federal law supreme over state law would erase state checks on federal power and remove a key barrier against central tyranny.