When does a statement encouraging freedom become a weapon used to enslave others? An example is the inclusion of the elastic clause in the United States Constitution. Inadvertently, the clause provides content fuel for politicians for countless years and upsets the tipping point between anarchy and oligarchy. Incidentally, it appears to cause conflict not because of coercion of citizens or government, but because of encouragement to create laws intended to help the citizens of this nation. In the long term, the consequences have resulted in tragedy, igniting one conflict after another and imperceptibly disarming Americans. Despite the chaos that emerged from its creation, the elastic clause was born with reasonable intentions. In the context of the creation of the United States Constitution, the powers of the legislative branch of government were established. These powers included what became known as the Elastic Clause, which gave the legislature the power to add additional federal laws as needed, as long as the need for the law persisted. To anyone, this would make perfect sense; if the legislature discovered a In one case, the date is 1791, the United States is divided over the issue of a national bank, intended to control the economy throughout the country. Despite the strong belief that a national bank would unfairly force several states to pay the costs of other states and that this bank could pave the way for government corruption, the bank was brought about under the same clause of Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. Since the clause never specifies what can pass as law and what cannot, there is no other argument to fight the opposing party. Unfortunately, this excuse to pass a law hides as the main flaw, among the negatives and the positives, in this controversy