Exam 4: The Constitution: Focus on Application to Business

Sometimes the Supreme Court uses the necessary and proper clause to:

Due process under the 14th Amendment may be violated when state action either shocks the conscience or offends judicial notions of fairness and human dignity.

In Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp.v.Public Service Comm. ,the New York utility commission ruled that electric utilities could not advertise to promote the use of electricity.The Supreme Court announced a test of the constitutionality of such restrictions on commercial speech.Which of the following is not a part of that test:

Federal regulation ______________ state regulation.

The Clean Air Act imposes civil penalties on executives of companies violate air pollution standards.If the government sued an executive for violating this law and asked for $100,000 in civil penalties to be imposed,the executive would have:

The Magna Carta of 1215 limited the powers of the king (the monarch)in the United Kingdom.

The Seventh Amendment provides for the right to jury trial in most common law cases.

The U.S.Constitution is composed of:

The equal protection clause is part of the Bill of Rights.

Which of the following is a key part of the British constitution:

In Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp.v.Public Service Comm. ,the New York utility commission ruled that electric utilities could not advertise to promote the use of electricity.The Supreme Court announced a test of the constitutionality of such restrictions on commercial speech.Which of the following is not a part of that test:

The Constitution gives Congress the power to tax in:

In Katzenbach v.McClung,the Supreme Court held that Congress had,in passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964,used which basis for applying federal regulations to a small restaurant?

Katzenbach v.McClung involved a restaurant that served food to black customers only at take-out windows.White customers would be seated.The Department of Justice was able to successfully sue the restaurant for violation of the Civil Rights Act because:

Suppose the city changes the regulations concerning property next to a home.As a result of the new regulation,a garbage dump will be built on that property,resulting in a fall in the value of the home of fifty percent.The home owner sues for compensation for a taking.The likely result will be:

According to the Supreme Court,an Alabama law charging a special fee for hazardous waste imported into the state is an example of:

For a publication to make critical remarks about a product,that could damage its sale,is not protected by the First Amendment since the matter is commercial.

In McCulloch v.Maryland,concerning a tax imposed by Maryland on a national bank,the Supreme Court held:

In Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp.v.Public Service Comm. ,the New York utility commission ruled that electric utilities could not advertise to promote the use of electricity.The Supreme Court held that the:

The Fifth Amendment includes: