Cases, 3

Question 1

Slaughter-House Cases

Answer 1

14TH AMENDMENT PROVISIONS ONLY PROTECT FORMER SLAVES (IN 1873 CONTEXT)

Question 2

Champion v. Ames

Answer 2

CONGRESS HAS POWER TO BAN GOODS DEEMED “HARMFUL” TO SOCIETY

Question 3

Munn v. Illinois

Answer 3

REGULATIONS ARE PERMISSIBLE IF IN STEP WITH PUBLIC GOOD

Question 4

Lochner v. New York

Answer 4

COURT MUST UPHOLD IMPLICIT RIGHTS OF CITIZENS (in this case, to “liberty of contract”)

Question 5

Hammer v. Dagenhart

Answer 5

CONGRESS ONLY HAS POWER TO REGULATE COMMERCE, NOT PRODUCTION of unharmful goods

Keating-Owen deemed unconstitutional

Question 6

Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Co.

Answer 6

CONGRESS CANNOT USE TAX POWER TO PENALIZE