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Constitutional Law - Coggle Diagram

- - - - sect preference = strict scrutiny
      - no sect pref = lemon test
- - - - Case or controversy
        
        A real and substantial dispute that touches the legal relations of parties with adverse interests and that can be resolved by a conclusive judicial decree
      - Ripeness
        
        Bars consideration of claims that haven't fully developed
      - Mootness
        
        Has the matter been resolved?
      - Abstention
        
        undecided issues of state law?
      - Standing
        
        injury in fact, causation, redressability
      - Political Questions
        
        Courts will not decide on political questions
  - - - Commerce Clause
        
        Channels of interstate commerce
        
        instrumentalities of interstate commerce
        
        activities that have a substantial economic effect upon interstate commerce
        
        Congress must show that the regulated activity is economic in nature and has a substantial effect on commerce cumulatively throughout the nation
      - Tax
        
        Raises Revenue = objective standard
        
        Intended to raise revenue = subjective standard