Exam 4: The Constitution: Focus on Application to Business

In Quill Corp.v.North Dakota,a state sales tax was imposed on out-of-state firms doing mail-order business with North Dakota residents.This law was found:

The Necessary and Proper Clause states that the Supreme Court is to ensure that statutes passed by Congress are "necessary and proper" under the Constitution.

The Supreme Court has reversed itself on major constitutional issues over the years because:

One important constitutional issue resolved in the 1819 case of McCulloch v.Maryland was:

The commerce clause of the Constitution gives Congress the power to regulate trade:

It was not until the 1930s that the Supreme Court held the states could not interfere with federal regulation of business.

In Consolidated Edison Co.v.Public Service Comm. ,the Supreme Court held that state utility regulators could prevent the electric company from spending money to advertise the desirability of nuclear power.

For a state to tax a business,the state must have:

In Hughes v.Oklahoma,Oklahoma law forbid the export of natural minnows,to help protect the state's natural resources.When this law was challenged,the Supreme Court announced a test of constitutionality that did not include which provision:

The part of the Constitution that gives Congress the authority to make laws to carry out powers granted to Congress in the Constitution is the:

The commerce clause of the U.S.Constitution:

In 1789:

The Sixth Amendment of the U.S.Constitution:

You purchase 150 acres of property in the Oregon mountains that is zoned for residential construction.Before you build a home,the Oregon legislature passes the Preservation Act,which prohibits construction.Your land is nearly worthless now and you sue.Your basis for a suit against Oregon is:

In Hughes v.Oklahoma,Oklahoma law forbid the export of natural minnows,to help protect the state's natural resources.When this law was challenged,the Supreme Court announced a test of constitutionality that did not include which provision:

The part of the Constitution that probably has the largest impact on business is knows as:

In Hughes v.Oklahoma,the Supreme Court applied which test regarding the constitutionality of a state law prohibiting the export of minnows?

In Kelo v.City of New London,Conn. ,where the city forced people to sell their houses so there could be a new large project built,the Supreme Court held that the government plan:

Eminent domain is when:

For a state to tax a business,the business must: