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Federal Exclusivity Overclaim

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

  • 22591_cedar_dove_preserve · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice AAs applied, the state statute violates the Obligation of Contracts Clause of the United States Constitution.

    Why it's attractive

    uses the contract fact but misses federal supremacy

    Why it's wrong

    uses the contract fact but misses federal supremacy

  • 22591_cedar_dove_preserve · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice BOnly the federal government may declare a species to be endangered.

    Why it's attractive

    the word only makes the answer too absolute

    Why it's wrong

    the word only makes the answer too absolute

  • 22591_cedar_dove_preserve · CONSTITUTIONAL_LAW · Choice DAs applied, the state statute unduly interferes with interstate commerce.

    Why it's attractive

    uses the out-of-state fact but misses the federal-land conflict

    Why it's wrong

    uses the out-of-state fact but misses the federal-land conflict

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