All Zoning Is Rational Basis
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.”
Subject distribution
- Constitutional Law1
Example wrong choices
21848_manna_house_family_integrity · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice AResolve the case only under the Dormant Commerce Clause.
Why it's attractive
The choice offers a familiar constitutional clause, which can feel safe on a route question. The breaker is that the stem has no commerce facts.
Why it's wrong
No commerce facts appear; the answer routes to a constitutional home outside the stem.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the stem contains commerce facts.
21848_manna_house_family_integrity · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BUphold the code automatically because aunts are never family for constitutional purposes.
Why it's attractive
The choice gives a clean categorical cutoff and avoids hard family-liberty analysis. The breaker is the absolute word 'never,' defeated by the family-integrity Gold Key.
Why it's wrong
The absolute 'never' overclaims the family category; the Gold Key supplies the close-family household anchor.
Spot it next time
Mark 'never' and trigger the close-family household Gold Key.
21848_manna_house_family_integrity · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DTreat the code as ordinary residential zoning subject only to rational basis, with no family-liberty concern.
Why it's attractive
The choice borrows the real ordinary-zoning frame and pairs it with rational basis. The breaker is that a direct close-family household exclusion changes the constitutional route.
Why it's wrong
Ordinary zoning is a real neighboring frame, but the family-household trigger routes the item to substantive due process.
Spot it next time
Ask whether the ordinance regulates unrelated occupants or directly excludes close relatives.
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