Chapter 5 Quiz

As originally intended, the Bill of Rights limited the powers of both the national and the state governments.

False

The Bill of Rights protects individuals, but not business entities, against various types of interference by the government.

False

Diana is a U.S. citizen and the owner of Eagle Software Systems, Inc. The Bill of Rights embodies a series of protections for Diana and other individual against various types of interference by

The government only

The checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution prevent any one branch of government from exercising too much power.

True

The federal form of government is one in which the national government and the states share sovereign power.

True

John burns the American flag. The First Amendment protects such speech

all of the time

The Seventh Amendment guarantees:

our right to a jury trial

Tennessee passes a law requiring all businesses to donate 10 percent of their profits to Protestant churches. The court would likely hold that this law violates

the First Amendment.

A congressional investigation revealed that conditions in a particular mining industry were perilous to the miners. As a result of the investigation, Congress proposed to enact a statue regulating the number of hours that workers could spend in the mines and setting forth a variety of safety measures that the mining companies would have to follow. Critics of the proposed law objected on the ground that the industry was concentrated entirely in one state and the state for years had refused to regulate it. What source of power for Congress to regulate mining conditions could proponents of the federal law point to?

the commerce clause

A statue enacted by the Arizona state legislature to regulate trucking affects interstate commerce. In evaluating this statue, the courts will balance the burden that it imposes on interstate commerce against

the state's interest in regulating the matter.