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What should the police incorporate in their battle against terrorist acts?

A woman is trying to buy birth control at a pharmacy, but the pharmacist refuses to sell her birth control on religious grounds. In a later lawsuit the woman’s lawyers argue that the pharmacist infringed upon which of her rights?

A state university claims eminent domain to take the private property of nearby neighbors and convert it into university housing. This use of eminent domain could be

Under the Constitution, state governments are

In Dred Scott v. Sanford, the Supreme Court ruled that enslaved Black people were not citizens of the United States and Scott was his owner’s permanent property regardless whether he was taken to a free state or territory.

The Federalists believed that the most apparent source of tyranny was the

When the courts apply strict scrutiny, the burden of proof is on the government to show the law serves a “compelling state interest” and that the government used the “least restrictive means” of achieving it.

The _____ is the concluding paragraph of Article I Section VIII of the Constitution — also known as the necessary and proper clause — which provides Congress with the authority to make all laws necessary and proper to carry out its enumerated power.

If a prisoner was required to shave his beard to comply with the institution’s policy despite the act being against his Muslim faith, then this would likely violate the free exercise clause of the Constitution.

Federalists attacked the supremacy clause and the elastic clause because they expanded the national government’s power.