v. Lopez 514 U.S. 549 (1995)‚ Vote of 5 to 4‚ Rehnquist for the court. Congress in 1990 enacted the Gun-Free School Zone Act‚ making it a federal offence to possess a firearm in a school zone. Congress relied on the authority of the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to justify passage of legislation as a way of stemming the rising tide of gun related incidents in public schools. In 1992 Alfonso Lopez‚ Jr. was a senior at Edison High School in San Antonio‚ Texas. Acting on an anonymous tip
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Word and Sentence Structure (1LIN404) The language which I will be using to analyse is Turkish. English translation- “The neighbour’s daughter has saved the black cat that the dogs bit in her garden.” Turkish translation – “Koms’nun kizi bahcesindeki kopeklerin isirdigi siyah kediyi kurtardi.” Komsu – neighbour’s ‚ this is a possession Kizi = daughter Bahce – sindeki = in her garden Kopeklerin = dog’s. Kopek is singular when ler is added to the word it becomes plural the in at the end
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S‚ V Condense of Composition Grammar Grammar (၂) S + V + C He is a student. (n) He is clever. (adj) 1. Five Basic Sentences ( ၅ He is here. (adv) ) ၅ He is in the garden. (phrase) S‚ V ( ) 1) S + V 2) S + V + C V = Verb 3) S + V + O C = Complement 4) S + V + I.O + D.O I.O = Indirect Object 5) S + V + O + C D.O = Direct Object (complement) S = Subject (၁) S + V A boy comes. She sleeps. They walk. (၄) 1) Noun (student) 2) Adjective
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for medical purposes with the recommendation and approval of a physician. Respondents who suffered from medical conditions sought to avail themselves of this exemption. Because the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) enacted under the commerce clause power of Congress prohibited possession of marijuana‚ in August of 2002 local county Sheriffs and federal DEA Agents entered Respondents’ home. While the county officials concluded that Respondents’ use of marijuana was lawful‚ the DEA did not and
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Obamacare Week/ 2 Assignment Yataka Thompson POL: 201 American National Government Instructor: Samantha Hodapp May 27‚ 2013 Introduction There truly is a legal challenge in regards to the Patient Protection and Affordable Act‚ which is commonly known as Obamacare‚ this type of great case usually comes along once a generation. The reason that this was a great case was simply because it reconsidered so many different aspects of our first principals of our constitution which was the fundamental
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word and its modifier(s) and the group of words under discussion consists of the phrase and clause of noun called nominal group. Since the position of modification after the head is often misunderstood as complementation‚ the discussion focuses more on the post-modification in the nominal groups in order to resolve the ambiguity. Based on the discussion‚ the head noun can be post-modified by the relative clause‚ the prepositional phrases‚ the adjectival phrases‚ the adverbial phrases‚ and the appositives
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trains that could carry fourteen passengers or had more than seventy freight cars as a safety measure. Then Southern Pacific Company said that this law violated the Commerce Clause. Statute: Arizona Train Limit Law Constitutional Provision: Commerce Clause Legal Question: Does the Arizona Train Limit Law violate the Commerce Clause? Legal Reasoning (J. Stone): • States don’t have the authority to substantially inhibit the flow of commerce and where the need for national uniformity in laws. o These
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requires straight mud flaps. (Question(s) Will truckers operating in or through Georgia have to comply with the Georgia statute? Or‚ does the Georgia law violate the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution because it substantially impacts interstate commerce? (Applicable Law(s) or Legal Principle(s) The Commerce Clause is found in Article. I‚ Section. 8 of the U. S. Constitution and states that “Congress has the power “to regulate Commerce among the several States.” Trucks carrying goods is
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certain powers can only be exercised by congress. One of the three main congressional powers is the power to regulate commerce among the states (Mallor 61). The Commerce Clause states that “The Congress shall have Power… To regulate Commerce…among the several states” (Mallor 61). However‚ the federal power under this clause has continuously expanded as a result of cases such as Wickard v.
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several angles to approach this case. The Privileges and Immunities Clause (Article IV‚ Section 2‚ Clause 1) is one of the decisive issue upon which the case is going to be decided as to whether the fundamental rights of the information requesters are violated. That said‚ the Privileges and Immunities Clause (PAI) is the law that prevents a state from treating citizens of other states in a discriminatory manner. The text of the clause reads: the Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges
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