Exam 4: Constitutional Law

The Supreme Court has held that, under the Due Process Clause, a driver's license is property which cannot be revoked without procedural due process.

The Clause protects against impairing the charter of a corporation formed under a state incorporation statute.

The State where Laura's father had lived passes a statute which requires that male heirs be preferred over female heirs in selecting an executor of an estate.Laura, a lawyer, would like to be the executor of her father's estate, but so would her eighteen-year-old brother who just flunked out of college.She challenges the provision as being a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.The case is now under consideration by the United States Supreme Court.In deciding the constitutionality of the provision, the Court will:

The Supreme Court, in Jackson v.Metropolitan Edison Co., held that a privately owned electric utility was subject to the Due Process Clause because operating the utility was "state action" since the State had granted the utility a monopoly.

The Supreme Court has defined the scope of the Commerce Clause narrowly and, therefore, has restricted the powers of the federal government to regulate business.

The legislative branch's primary check on both the judicial and executive branches is the power to:

The main purpose of the Bill of Rights was to:

The federal government's power to tax is subject to the limitation that all custom duties and excise taxes must be uniform throughout the United States.

A state constitutional provision conflicts with a valid federal statute.Under the Supremacy Clause:

Judicial review is another phrase for an appeal of a lower court's judgment.

Which of the following is correct with regard to the powers of government in the United States?

Briefly discuss the Contract Clause of the U.S.Constitution.

According to the Tenth Amendment, "the powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively or to the people." This principle is:

A star basketball player in the NBA:

The Bill of Rights restricts the power and authority of the federal government.

Which of the following would NOT be included in the powers of the federal government?

The federal government's power to tax has no limitations.

Action taken by private citizens may constitute state action if the state has encouraged the challenged private action significantly.

The rational relationship test, used by the courts to determine whether a certain governmental power exercised impermissibly encroaches upon an interest the Constitution protects, is the most exacting of the three possible levels of scrutiny used.

Identify the purpose of the U.S.Constitution as stated in its preamble.