1. Explain why the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution allows Congress to regulate State and Local businesses.Be able to cite case law in your explanation.
2. Identify a State's limitation on its ability to regulate interstate commerce within its own borders.
3. Identify the source of Congress's power to tax businesses and what standards these taxes must meet.
4. Explain what happens when state and federal laws conflict with one another.
5. Give examples of types of speech protected by the First Amendment and types of speech that are not protected by the First Amendment.
6. Kansas passes a statutes which says all corn must be grown and processed in a certain manner so as to avoid harmful pesticides.This statute is challenged as being unconstitutional.What are the two factors for the court to consider when deciding whether the statute is constitutional?
7. Downtown Cincinnati, in an area known as "Over the Rhine", has long been an area of poverty containing empty and rundown buildings.The city of Cincinnati wishes to use this area to create new businesses and spark economic development.Would the eminent domain power allow the city to take this property from the building owners for the purpose of economic rejuvenation and elimination of "blight" within the city?What U.S. Supreme Court case would serve as precedent for this issue?