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In a challenge to the Civil Rights Act before the Supreme Court in the case involving Ollie McClung who refused to serve blacks in his restaurant, the Court based its decision upholding the act on which constitutional principle?
 
  A) Congress's power to regulate interstate commerce
  B) Fifth Amendment's equal protection clause
  C) Thirteenth Amendment's protection against slavery clause
  D) federal government's duty to ensure domestic tranquility
  E) Bill of Rights

Question 2

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans
 
  A) only governmental acts of discrimination.
  B) only discrimination by educational institutions.
  C) private and governmental acts of discrimination.
  D) only discrimination against women and African Americans.
  E) only private discrimination.



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Answer to Question 1

A

Answer to Question 2

C



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