It allowed the Sherman Antitrust Act to affect and preempt a state law under congress jurisdiction,and subjected to the conclusion of a two-step examination, as set forth by the Supreme Court in the Rice vs. Norman Williams Company case.
The "elastic clause<span>" has its name because it states that the United States </span>Congress <span>has the </span>power<span> "to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper," which refers to a loose jurisdiction. </span>The term<span> refers to Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.</span>
