Sweeping
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Anderson (1889)
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Comprehensive; including In its scope many persons or objects; as a sweeping objection.
A Dictionary of Law
William C. Anderson · 1889
Comprehending many particulars in one act or action: as, a sweeping objection, exception, or denial. Sweeping clause. The last (eighteenth) paragraph of section 8, Art. I, of the Corstitution, conferring power upon Congress " To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution" the powers vested in the general government. See further Necessary.