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Competing interests at the Constitutional Convention led to the adoption of a federal system that was not clearly defined. ... federal government. ... Jefferson, on the other hand, feared that the national government will threaten the people’s liberties and thought that the powers of the federal government should be narrowly construed and strictly limited. He viewed the federal government as a product of an agreement among the states so the states should have more power than the federal. Because of these arguments, many of the clauses bearing on federal-state relations were quite vague. The founders knew that they could not make a list of everything the federal government was empowered to do so they added the elastic clause to Article I: Congress shall have the power to “make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
Approximate Word count = 509
Approximate Pages = 2
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