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 * strict contructionist || a person very strictly follows rules/laws. ||
 * lose constructionist || a person who tries to find ways around the rule/law without violating it. ||


 * “Every power vested in a Government is in its nature sovereign, and includes … a right to employ all the means requisite [necessary], and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power; and which are not percluded by restrictions & exceptions specified in the constitution.” ||
 * **Alexander Hamilton, 1791** ||

^lose contruction- he is saying that they have the power to do things, since the constitution does not side against it.


 * Thomas Jefferson feared that** **the “necessary and proper”** **clause would open the door to** **abuse of power.**


 * “To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition…. The Constitution allows only the means which are “necessary,” not those which are merely “convenient” for effecting the enumerated powers.” ||
 * **Thomas Jefferson, 1791** ||

^strict construction- he doesn't want to do anything that is not approved by the constitution.

-These two quotes are both opinions, Jefferson and Hamilton both are explaining __their own beliefes__ concerning the constitution and how it should be interperated in the given situation.

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