Judicial History
This is the article of the Constitution that outlines the judicial branch.
What is Article III?
Circuit courts are this type of court, which reviews the decisions of lower courts.
What are appellate courts?
This is the term length for Supreme Court justices.
What is life?
This protects many bureaucrats from partisan firings.
What is the civil service system?
This is a Constitutional legislative check on the Supreme Court.
What is confirmation of justice nominations in the Senate?
What is the impeachment of a Supreme Court justice?
What is amending the Constitution?
This court case was supported by Federalist 78 and solidified the court's power of judicial review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
The reasoning for a court's decision is known as this.
What is holding?
The number of Supreme Court justices is set by this.
What is Congress?
The FEC creating regulations for what are and are not acceptable campaign contributions is an example of this.
What is bureaucratic rulemaking?
This is a Constitutional executive check on the Supreme Court.
What are presidential appointments of Supreme Court justices?
What is refusing to enforce a Supreme Court ruling?
As punishment for the SCOTUS' decision in Marbury v Madison, the Democratic-Republican majority in Congress took this action against the court.
What is passing legislation that affected its jurisdiction?
Congress' control of the budget to encourage states to pass specific legislation is known as this.
What is fiscal federalism?
This is the lowest level of the federal court system.
What are district courts?
Although appointed by the president, the president does not have the authority to dismiss them without "just cause".
Who are commissioners of independent regulatory agencies?
Congressional oversight over the bureaucracy is most directly done through this.
What is the budgetary process?
The Supreme Court, led by this Chief Justice, issued landmark civil rights rulings in cases such as Brown v Board of Education and Miranda v Arizona.
Who is Earl Warren (the Warren Court)?
The tendency of judges to interpret the Constitution according to their own views rather than the views of the Framers or previous precedent is known as this.
What is judicial activism?
This is the most important job of the Supreme Court.
What is judicial review?
The United States Postal Service and Amtrak are both examples of these types of bureaucratic entities?
What are governmental corporations?
The National Park Service spending money on national parks that had been budgeted by Congress is an example of this.
What is bureaucratic implementation of law?
The term refers to the process of reducing the power of the federal government and returning more power to the states.
What is devolution?
This term refers to a two house legislature.
What is bicameral(ism)?
This is sometimes referred to as "marble cake" federalism.
What is cooperative federalism?
This clause in the Constitution requires states to recognize legal documents issued in other states.
What is the full faith and credit clause?
The ability of the president to speak out and influence public perception of legislation or a court decision is known as this.
What is the bully pulpit?