AP®︎ U.S. Government & Politics: Topic 1.8 Flashcards

Congress’s power to regulate interstate commerce, including its channels, instrumentalities, and intrastate economic activity that substantially affects interstate commerce

Allows Congress to use appropriate, constitutionally permitted means to carry out its enumerated powers

Congressional powers not expressly listed in the Constitution but reasonably connected to carrying out enumerated powers

Makes the Constitution, constitutional federal laws, and treaties superior to conflicting state law

The displacement of state law by valid federal law when Congress expressly requires it, federal regulation occupies the field, or state law conflicts with or obstructs federal law

Prohibits states from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law and protects certain fundamental liberties

Requires states to provide equal protection of the laws and permits national intervention against discriminatory state policies

Authorizes Congress to enforce the Fourteenth Amendment against unconstitutional state action through appropriate legislation

Held that Congress could create a national bank through implied powers and that Maryland could not tax or obstruct that valid national institution

Held that Congress exceeded the Commerce Clause by banning local, non-economic gun possession near schools without a sufficient connection to interstate commerce

Invalidated a federal civil remedy for private gender-motivated violence because non-economic private conduct exceeded both the Commerce Clause and Fourteenth Amendment enforcement power