When does a statement encouraging freedom become a weapon used to enslave others? An example occurs with the inclusion of the elastic clause in the United States Constitution. The clause has inadvertently fueled politicians' content for countless years and disrupts the tipping point between anarchy and oligarchy. By the way, this seems to cause conflict not because of restricting citizens or government, but because of encouraging the creation of laws intended to help the citizens of this nation. In the long run, the consequences resulted in tragedy, fueling conflict after conflict while disarming Americans in ways that were undetectable. Despite the chaos resulting from its creation, the Elastic Clause began with reasonable intentions. Amidst the creation of the U.S. 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 more federal laws if necessary, as long as the need for the law continued. To anyone, this would make perfect sense; In one case, dating from 1791, the United States was divided over the question of a national bank, meant 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 such a bank could pave the way for government corruption, the bank came into existence because of this same clause in Article 1 , Article 8 of the Constitution of the United States. Since the clause never specified what could be passed into law and what could not, there is no other argument to combat the opposing side. Unfortunately, this pretext for adopting a law constitutes the main flaw, among the negative and positive points, of this controversy.