The words "pursuant to the constitution" will be no restriction to
the authority of congress; for the foregoing section gives them
unlimited legislation; their unbounded power of taxation does alone
include all others, as whoever has the purse strings will have full
dominion. But the convention has superadded another power, by which
the congress may stamp with the sanction of the constitution every
possible law; it is contained in the following clause — "To make all
laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution
the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this
constitution in the government of the United States, or in any
department or officer thereof." Whatever law congress may deem
necessary and proper for carrying into execution any of the powers
vested in them, may be enacted; and by virtue of this clause, they
may controul and abrogate any and every of the laws of the state
governments, on the allegation that they interfere with the
execution of any of their powers, and yet these laws will "be made
in pursuance of the constitution," and of course will "be the
supreme law of the land, and the judges in every state shall be
bound thereby, any thing in the constitution or laws
of any state to the contrary notwithstanding." Storing, Herbert J., ed. The Complete
Anti-Federalist. 7 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1981.