The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the most recent example of how Congress or the President has used, justifying its necessity because of this clause. The entire reading is available at (http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/14pdf/14-114_qol1.pdf). Through my research, I came across a website that detailed the initial tone of the ACA and is a great example of the “necessary and proper” language found in the U.S. Constitution. It also demonstrates how Congress and the Supreme Court can make changes to ease the law's requirements. On March 27, 2012, the Supreme Court heard the central issue in the challenges to the Affordable Care Act. The Obama administration has consistently argued that the individual mandate is essential to the effectiveness of the ACA and has argued that if the individual mandate were declared unconstitutional, then the ban on pre-existing conditions, minimum health care charges, and other essential regulatory protections for health insurance consumers must fall with it, as they are inextricably intertwined with the individual mandate. The issue could also have raised fundamental questions about our modern federal government. If the Court chose to issue sweeping doctrinal formulations of the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause, or to appeal to the freedom of contractual interests in overriding the individual mandate, the Court