1. In an effort to end discrimination in the U.S., Congress passed the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. One piece of this law
prohibits hotels, motels, restaurants, or
other places serving the public
from discriminating on the basis of race, sex,
color, religion, or national
origin. A hotel owner in Georgia files suit against
the government claiming
Congress has no right to create this law because his
hotel is a local
operation and does not have branches in other states and is,
,
therefore a local
business. He also complains he is being deprived of the right
to use his property
as he sees fit without due process - a loss of both his
liberty and property which is in violation of the Fifth Amendment. Finally, by
being forced to rent rooms against his will he says he is a "slave" to the
federal government's rules, a violation of the 13th Amendment.
is this constitutional?