Business Law: Chapter 1- Legal and Constitutional Foundations of Business

The Bill of Right Embodies...

A series of protections for the individual against government action.

Pros in Politics, a bookstore in Capitol City, sells publications that criticize government actions and policies. The city enacts an ordinance prohibiting the sale of such materials in the interest of preserving public tranquility. What is the ordinance under the First Amendment?

An Unconstitutional Restriction of Speech

What is the system in the U.S. Constitution that allows each branch of government to limit the actions of the other branches of government?

Checks and Balances

True or False: A law based on a suspect trait will not stand under the equal protection clause, even if it is necessary to promote a compelling government interest.

False

True or False: Because laws may change, the ability to analyze and evaluate the legal ramifications of situations as they arise is not a lasting skill.

False

True or False: Compartmentalizing the law into discrete topics indicates that each business transaction is subject to only one specific area of the law.

False

True or False: legal encyclopedias, law review articles, and treatises are sources of primary law.

False

A constitution sets forth a government's...

Limits and Powers

The state of Ohio can regulate building contractors, and building codes in the state under its...

Police Powers

Barry and Marie's child Macy is very ill. The hospital determines that she needs a blood transfusion in order to survive. Barry and Marie argue that a blood transfusion is against their religion, and to force them to allow it would be a Constitution infringement on their religious rights. The government could step in and allow it under...

Public Policy Exemption

Mary creates a t-shirt design that expresses support for Nash, a presidential candidate, and distributes t-shirts to all of her friends. The t-shirts are an example of...

Symbolic Speech

The basis of all law in the United States is...

The U.S. Constitution

Under the U.S. Constitution, the federal government has the power to regulate commercial activities among the states. This grant implies that the regulation of such activities is not within the authority of...

The states

True or False: Congress or a state legislature establishes an administrative agency to perform a specific function.

True

True or False: the Constitution is the primary source of law.

True

True or False: typically, in a civil case, a private party sues another private party who has failed to comply with a duty.

True

True or false: ordering a party to preform the duty as promised is an equitable remedy.

True

Does the study of business law involve an ethical dimension?

Yes

If there is no precedence in deciding a court case, can the government consider government policy based on widely held social values?

Yes

Is rescission and equitable remedy?

Yes