CLEP US Government

Category - Courts

Which of the following can be used to overturn a Supreme Court decision declaring a federal law unconstitutional?
  1. Presidential veto
  2. Constitutional amendment
  3. Congressional nullification
  4. National referendum
  5. There is no way that a Supreme Court decision can be overturned.
Explanation
Answer: B - Since the Supreme Court is issuing a decision determining the constitutionality of a law, the only way to overturn that decision is to change the Constitution. Because the Constitution is so difficult to amend, this hasn’t been done very often. The most notable case is probably the Sixteenth Amendment, which instituted the income tax after the Supreme Court ruled that a federal income tax was unconstitutional.
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