Broad Power Reflex
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
14365_imitation_honey · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice AThe General Welfare Clause.
Why it's attractive
Only choice framed as a purpose-matched catch-all; anchor says it isn't a regulatory power.
Why it's wrong
Only choice framed as a purpose-matched catch-all; anchor says it isn't a regulatory power.
14365_imitation_honey · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BThe enforcement powers of the Fourteenth Amendment.
Why it's attractive
Anchor: Fourteenth Amendment enforcement cannot reach purely private conduct.
Why it's wrong
Anchor: Fourteenth Amendment enforcement cannot reach purely private conduct.
14365_imitation_honey · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DThe spending power.
Why it's attractive
Anchor: no money/condition in the statute, so the spending power doesn't answer this call.
Why it's wrong
Anchor: no money/condition in the statute, so the spending power doesn't answer this call.
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