Augusta University POLS 4501 Exam 3
Issues well answered to pass
Cohens v. Virginia - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Did the Supreme Court
Dred Scott v. Sanford - correct answer ✔✔Issues: Can "Negroes" be citizens? Was the Missouri
Compromise constitutional?
Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does the Montana
licencing scheme for the hunting if elk violate the Privileged and Immunities clause of the
Constitution?
New York v. United States - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does the Act violate the 10th
Amendment? Can Congress direct the States to regulate in a particular way?
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Is the National Labor
Relations Act unconstitutional
Printz v. United States - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Whether the interim provisions of the Brady
bill requiring CLEOs to conduct background checks on the prospective gun buyers are
constitutional?
Wickard v. Filburn - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Can Congress regulate the production of wheat
for home consumption under the commerce clause?
Tennessee v. Lane - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does Title II of the Americans with Disability Act
exceed Congress' power under section 5 of the 14th amendment? Did Title II violate the 11th
amendment?
, Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does 42 USC 1982 bar all racial
discrimination in the sale/rental of property and is the statue of valid exercise of the power of
Congress to enforce the 13th amendment?
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Can Congress use its
commerce clause to forbid racial discrimination in public accomadations and restaurants?
Katzenbach v. McClung - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Can Congress use its commerce clause to
forbid racial discrimination in public accomadations and restaurants?
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority - correct answer ✔✔Issues: Can Congress
enforce minimum wage/maximum hour requirements against state and local governments or is
a state authority performing a traditional govt. function immune from federal regulation?
United States v Lopez - correct answer ✔✔
Gonzales v. Raich - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does Congress have the power under the
commerce clause to prohibit the local cultivation and use of marijuana for medical use in
compliance with California Law?
US v. Kahriger - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does the occupational tax provision of the Revenue
Act of 1951 violate the 5th and 10th amendment?
South Dakota v. Dole - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Can Congress act indirectly under it's spending
power to encourage uniformity in the States' drinking age?
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius - correct answer ✔✔Issue:
1. Does Congress have power under the Commerce Clause or the Taxing and Spending Clause to
require most Americans to purchase health insurance with a minimal level of coverage?
Issues well answered to pass
Cohens v. Virginia - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Did the Supreme Court
Dred Scott v. Sanford - correct answer ✔✔Issues: Can "Negroes" be citizens? Was the Missouri
Compromise constitutional?
Baldwin v. Montana Fish and Game Commission - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does the Montana
licencing scheme for the hunting if elk violate the Privileged and Immunities clause of the
Constitution?
New York v. United States - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does the Act violate the 10th
Amendment? Can Congress direct the States to regulate in a particular way?
NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Is the National Labor
Relations Act unconstitutional
Printz v. United States - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Whether the interim provisions of the Brady
bill requiring CLEOs to conduct background checks on the prospective gun buyers are
constitutional?
Wickard v. Filburn - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Can Congress regulate the production of wheat
for home consumption under the commerce clause?
Tennessee v. Lane - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does Title II of the Americans with Disability Act
exceed Congress' power under section 5 of the 14th amendment? Did Title II violate the 11th
amendment?
, Jones v. Alfred H. Mayer Co. - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does 42 USC 1982 bar all racial
discrimination in the sale/rental of property and is the statue of valid exercise of the power of
Congress to enforce the 13th amendment?
Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Can Congress use its
commerce clause to forbid racial discrimination in public accomadations and restaurants?
Katzenbach v. McClung - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Can Congress use its commerce clause to
forbid racial discrimination in public accomadations and restaurants?
Garcia v. San Antonio Metropolitan Transit Authority - correct answer ✔✔Issues: Can Congress
enforce minimum wage/maximum hour requirements against state and local governments or is
a state authority performing a traditional govt. function immune from federal regulation?
United States v Lopez - correct answer ✔✔
Gonzales v. Raich - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does Congress have the power under the
commerce clause to prohibit the local cultivation and use of marijuana for medical use in
compliance with California Law?
US v. Kahriger - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Does the occupational tax provision of the Revenue
Act of 1951 violate the 5th and 10th amendment?
South Dakota v. Dole - correct answer ✔✔Issue: Can Congress act indirectly under it's spending
power to encourage uniformity in the States' drinking age?
National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius - correct answer ✔✔Issue:
1. Does Congress have power under the Commerce Clause or the Taxing and Spending Clause to
require most Americans to purchase health insurance with a minimal level of coverage?
