The State of Alabama Passes a Statute Which Requires That

question 9

Multiple Choice

The State of Alabama passes a statute which requires that male heirs be preferred over female heirs in selecting an executor of an estate.Laura, a lawyer, would like to be the executor of her father's estate, but so would her eighteen-year-old brother who just flunked out of college.She challenges the provision as being a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.The case is now under consideration by the United States Supreme Court.In deciding the constitutionality of the provision, the Court will:

• A)apply the rational relationship test.
• B)apply the strict scrutiny test.
• C)apply the intermediate standard test.
• D)create a new test

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Definitions:

Somatic

Relating to the body, particularly the external parts and not the reproductive organs, often in contrast to psychological or mental aspects.

Oculomotor

Pertaining to the movement of the eyeball and the muscles controlling it, often in reference to the oculomotor nerve.

Trochlear

Refers to the fourth cranial nerve, responsible for eye movement.

Abducens

The sixth cranial nerve, which controls the lateral rectus muscle of the eye, responsible for outward eye movement.