CONSTITUTION & GOVERNMENT
The Constitution divides the federal government into these three branches.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
This clause of the First Amendment concerns the government's relationship with religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This Amendment protects people against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
When federal law and state law conflict, this principle may cause federal law to override state law.
What is federal preemption?
This refers to principles concerning what is right, wrong, fair, or responsible behavior.
What is ethics?
This principle prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the actions of the others.
What are checks and balances?
In Newdow v. U.S. Congress, the constitutional issue involved this phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance.
What is “under God”?
In Riley v. California, police generally need this before searching the digital information stored on a cell phone seized from an arrested person.
What is a warrant?
In Rowe v. New Hampshire Motor Transport Association, Maine had enacted regulations involving the delivery of this product.
The case involved Maine's requirements concerning delivery of tobacco products.
A written set of standards that explains how employees are expected to behave ethically is commonly called this.
What is a code of ethics?
Under this constitutional principle, power is divided between the federal government and state governments.
What is federalism?
In United States v. Morrison, Congress attempted to rely on this constitutional power to support federal regulation of gender-motivated violence.
What is the Commerce Clause?
Why did the Supreme Court distinguish a modern cell phone from ordinary physical objects found on an arrested person?
What is because cell phones contain enormous amounts of highly personal information?
In Rowe, the Supreme Court found that federal law preempted Maine's requirements because they directly affected these aspects of motor-carrier operations.
What are rates, routes, and services?
A company may have written ethical rules, but employees are more likely to follow them when leaders consistently demonstrate ethical behavior themselves. This is an example of what?
What is leading by example?
This amendment reserves powers not delegated to the federal government to the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
In United States v. Morrison, the Supreme Court also considered whether Congress could rely on this section of the Fourteenth Amendment.
What is Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment?
In Riley, this exception may still allow police to search a phone without a warrant when a particular emergency makes immediate action objectively reasonable.
What are exigent circumstances?
In Mutual Pharmaceutical Co. v. Bartlett, federal law prevented the generic drug manufacturer from independently changing the drug's labeling. This created what type of conflict?
What is an impossibility conflict?
Why can treating coworkers with respect be a business issue rather than merely a personal issue?
What is because employee treatment can affect workplace behavior, employee performance, relationships, and business outcomes?
A court determines that a law violates the Constitution and therefore cannot be enforced. What power is the court exercising?
What is judicial review?
A federal law gives Congress a particular power, but Congress passes a law that goes beyond that power. What constitutional concept asks whether Congress actually had authority to enact the law?
What are enumerated powers?
In Fawcett v. Altieri, a party seeking access to private social-media information needed more than speculation. The requesting party needed this type of factual basis.
What are credible facts showing relevant information exists?
A state requires a business to do something that federal law prohibits the business from doing. Which principle provides the strongest argument that the state requirement cannot be enforced?
What is federal preemption?
The Enron scandal illustrates what major business-ethics problem?
What is unethical corporate conduct and decision-making that can cause serious harm to employees, investors, and the public?