Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which enumerates the powers of Congress and provides Congress with the authority to make all laws necessary and proper to carry them out; also referred to as the elastic clause.
There is an exact numerical answer to this question. By definition, 1 light year is exactly 9,460,730,472,580,800 meters. By definition, 1 mile is exactly 1,609.344 meters. So, 1 light year is exactly 5,878,625,373,183 and 849/1397 miles, by definition.
A light-year is equal to 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (about 9.461 Pm; 5,878,625,373,183.61 statute miles; about 63,240 astronomical units or about 0.3066 parsecs. The exact length of the light-year depends on the length of the reference year used in the calculation, and there is no wide consensus on the reference to be used. The figures above are based on a reference year of exactly 365.25 days (each of exactly 86,400 SI seconds).