BMGT 380 Final: 380- cheat sheet final.docx

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Business and Management
• Course: BMGT 380
• Professor: Reyna

Document Summary

Can also serve as a regulatory device (power of tax is power to destroy) Congress can regulate disfavored activities by heavily taxing them. Gives congress a broad ability to spend for the general welfare: ex: conditional fed grants to states - get more $ if do the things we want you to do - speed limit. Permits congress to enact laws that are useful or conducive to the exercise of those enumerated powers. Independent checks on the fed gov and the states. 3 checks that limit both federal and state regulation of the economy: freedom of speech, due process, equal protection. The process by which almost all bill of rights provisions now apply to the states (due process clause: incorporate state and federal law when not explicitly said. Most of the constitution"s individual rights provisions block only the actions of government bodies, federal, state and local.