Re: Where In The Constitution...
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I think you have to go back to Gibbons vs Ogden and move forward from there too.
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You might also want to go back to McCulloch v. Maryland (which was actually a cited precendential case for Gibbons). I won't get into the details, but one of the major holdings was that Congress can do anything not restricted by the Constitution, rather than limiting Congress's powers to those enumerated. And this was before the opinion's discussion of the Necessary and Proper Clause.
The expansive view of the Commerce Clause was made possible in large part to this interpretation of Congress's powers.
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