In the 1873 Slaughterhouse Cases, the Supreme Court stated that ______ would "fetter and degrade state governments by subjecting them to the control of Congress."

A. the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration
B. the broad application of the Fourteenth Amendment to state policy
C. the president's executive order concerning butchers in New Orleans
D. the Emancipation Proclamation

Answer: B

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a. commercial b. educational c. holiday d. interstate e. local

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Proportional representation is a system

a. in which most of the seats in the legislature are distributed to the party that receives the majority of votes. b. in which seats in the legislature are distributed in proportion to the number of votes that a party receives. c. in which all parties participating in an election are guaranteed a certain number of seats. d. that tends to have only two major parties. e. that is inherently unfair because it hinders minor parties.

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