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Quotation from Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank by Alexander Hamilton
“According to both, necessary often means no more than needful, requisite, incidental, useful, or conducive to.”
Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank, Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791) (Avalon Project transcription)
Hamilton appeals to both the grammatical and the popular sense of the word against Jefferson's strict reading.
Citation: "According to both, necessary often means no more than needful, requisite, incidental, useful, or conducive to." — Alexander Hamilton, Hamilton's Reports and Opinion on the Bank, Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791) (Avalon Project transcription). (id hamiltons-reports-and-opinion-on-the-bank-q5)
Portrait: Google Arts Project - Alexander Hamilton (1792 portrait) by John Trumbull, John Trumbull, Public domain.
