Necessary and Proper Clause
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The necessary and proper clause (also known as the elastic clause) from Section 8 of Article One of the United States Constitution (“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.”) provides a legislative blank check of sorts for Congress, allowing the creation of any law seen as "necessary" or "proper" regardless of its mention in the United States Constitution. It got its name from its use in "stretching" the Constitution's powers, giving federal legislators and justices the ability to interpret their powers in the broadest possible way.
Examples of the "necessary and proper" clause were the charterings of the Bank of the United States which, although its provisions were never specifically mentioned in the Constitution, Congress felt necessary and proper to pass it into law.