Use the excerpt to answer the question. "What is a power. but the ability or faculty of doing a thing? What is the ability to do a thing, but the power of employing the MEANS necessary to its execution? What is a LEGISLATIVE power, but a power of making LAWS? What are the MEANS to execute a LEGISLATIVE power but LAWS? What is the power of laying and collecting taxes, but a LEGISLATIVE POWER, or a power of MAKING LAWS, to lay and collect taxes? What are the proper means of executing such a power, but NECESSARY and PROPER laws?" Which of the following best summarizes this quote from Federalist, no. 33?
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The quote emphasizes that power is the ability to do something and that legislative power involves the making and execution of laws. The proper means of executing such a power are necessary and proper laws.