LEGL 2700 Chapter 6: Study Notes at UGA

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Legal Studies
• Course: LEGL 2700
• Professor: All

Document Summary

A provision in the fourteenth amendment of the u. s. constitution. The government"s constitutional power to take private property for public. Commerce clause a provision in article i, section 8, of the u. s. constitution that grants the federal government the power to regulate business transactions. Commercial speech speech that has a business-oriented purpose. This speech is protected under the first amendment, but this protection is not as great as that afforded to noncommercial speech. The constitutional provision that prohibits states from enacting laws that interfere with existing contracts. The supreme court has refused to interpret this clause in an absolute manner. Defamation the publication of anything injurious to the good name or reputation of another. Dormant commerce clause concept the impact of the commerce clause as a means of limiting state and local governments" powers to regulate business activities. Due process clause a provision found in the fifth and fourteenth amendments of the u. s.