The ______ made unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce illegal under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
A) Celler-Kefauver amendment
B) Noerr-Pennington amendment
C) Herfindahl-Hirschman amendment
D) Robinson-Patman amendment
E) Wheeler-Lea amendment

Question

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The Wheeler-Lea amendment in 1938 added that unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce are unlawful under Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act. The original Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act outlawed unfair methods of competition in commerce and directed the FTC to prevent the use of such, but it offered no definition of the specific practices that were unfair.
Short Answer Questions

The ______ Made Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices in Commerce