1The Federalist Number 42, [22 January 1788] (Madison Papers)
...of defining felonies in this case, was in every respect necessary and proper.
2The Federalist Number 44, [25 January] 1788 (Madison Papers)
...make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing...
3Power of Congress over Federal District, [16 June] 1788 (Madison Papers)
...conjunction with its power to make all laws necessary and proper to carry its powers into...
4Amendments to the Constitution, [8 June] 1789 (Madison Papers)
...make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution all the...
5Amendments to the Constitution, [15 August] 1789 (Madison Papers)
...to congress to make all laws necessary and proper to carry into execution the...
6Location of the Capital, [4 September] 1789 (Madison Papers)
...me leave to say, it is even more necessary and proper, that a sacred regard should be paid...
7Commercial Discrimination, [30 January] 1794 (Madison Papers)
...a prejudice to Portugal. If it were necessary and proper to go into the enquiry, more...
8Virginia Resolutions, 21 December 1798 (Madison Papers)
...In JM’s mind, the abuse of the “necessary and proper” clause in the Constitution had led to...
9Edmund Randolph’s Notes on the Common Law, [ca. September] 1799 (Madison Papers)
...any power except what was given or was necessary and proper to carry into execution the...
10The Report of 1800, [7 January] 1800 (Madison Papers)
as necessary and proper, for carrying into execution the powers expressly delegated. But...
11From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 12 January 1800 (Madison Papers)
...parts thereof as may be adopted as necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers...
12To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 12 January 1800 (Jefferson Papers)
...that “may be adopted as necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers...
13From James Madison to Anthony Merry, 3 July 1804 (Madison Papers)
...fine the attention of the Government to necessary and proper objects is to be thus interrupted...
14From James Madison to William Pinkney, 9 September 1808 (Madison Papers)
...such steps as you may find necessary and proper. By that conveyance several original...
15From James Madison to Jonathan Barry, 24 December 1808 (Madison Papers)
...States; taking all the precautions which the occasion may render necessary and proper. I am &c.
16From James Madison to Caleb Strong, 7 February 1814 (Madison Papers)
...will receive whatever interposition may be necessary and proper, in their behalf, from the...
17From James Madison to the House of Representatives, 3 March 1817 (Madison Papers)
..., within the power to make laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution those or...
18From James Madison to Tench Coxe, 17 January 1821 (Madison Papers)
...the right “to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing...
19Review of a Statement Attributed to General John Armstrong, with an Appendix of Illustrative Documents, [ca. 30 April … (Madison Papers)
...such as would in his opinion be necessary and proper; that this was an obvious and...
20[Copy of James Madison] to Robert Y. Hayne [as enclosed in James Madison to Edward Everett, April 17, 1830], 3 April … (Madison Papers)
...the necessary and proper measures in maintaining unimpaired "the authorities rights and...
21James Madison to [Edward Everett], 28 August 1830 (Madison Papers)
...the necessary and proper measures, in maintaining unimpaired the authorities rights and...
22James Madison to Andrew Stevenson, 10 February 1833 (Madison Papers)
...letter, that Constitutional provisions, necessary and proper to defeat resistance to the...
23James Madison: On Nullification, December 1834 (Madison Papers)
...are unconstitutional, and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each...