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14th Amendment P I Controls All Interstate Discrimination

This trap appears as a wrong-answer choice in 1 active question. Spotting how it is built is the repair: read each example's “why it's attractive” before the “why it's wrong.”

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  • Constitutional Law1

Example wrong choices

  • 19851_peter_bookstore · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice AIt is correct because the Fourteenth Amendment Privileges or Immunities Clause controls every interstate discrimination case.

    Why it's attractive

    The word 'every' makes this choice an absolute statement. The 14th Amend P/I Clause does not control *every* interstate discrimination case.

    Why it's wrong

    The word 'every' makes this choice an absolute statement. The 14th Amend P/I Clause does not control *every* interstate discrimination case.

  • 19851_peter_bookstore · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BIt is correct only if the plaintiff is a corporation.

    Why it's attractive

    The stem is about a natural-person citizen. This choice introduces a corporate-plaintiff condition that the question never raised.

    Why it's wrong

    The stem is about a natural-person citizen. This choice introduces a corporate-plaintiff condition that the question never raised.

  • 19851_peter_bookstore · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DIt is wrong because no constitutional provision protects nonresident citizens.

    Why it's attractive

    This choice says no constitutional provision protects nonresident citizens. That is simply not the law.

    Why it's wrong

    This choice says no constitutional provision protects nonresident citizens. That is simply not the law.

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