Define This!
The Courts
Supreme Court
Supreme Court
The FED
100
How similar cases have been decided in the past
What is precedent?
100
two basic classifications of cases
What are criminal and civil?
100
The number of Supreme Court justices
What is 9?
100
The United States has _____ judicial districts.
What is 12?
100
This department manages the data for unemployment and labor in the U.S.
What is the Bureau of Labor Statistics?
200
Legal briefs submitted by friends of the court
What is an amicus curiae brief?
200
The number of federal district courts
What is 91?
200
The current Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
Who is John Roberts?
200
8 of the justices on the supreme court are called ___________ justices.
What is associate?
200
This policy is focused on taxing and spending.
What is fiscal policy?
300
The principle that the government should not meddle in the economhy.
What is laissez-faire?
300
The litigants in a court case are called...
What are plaintiff and defendant?
300
The ________________ nominates Supreme Court justices.
Who is the President?
300
The number of justices that must agree on a Supreme Court case to make a decision.
What is a majority?
300
The FOMC meets this many times per year.
What is 8?
400
The policy used to manipulate the money supply.
What is monetary policy?
400
The court that first hears the case has _________ jurisdiction.
What is original jurisdiction?
400
The term of a Supreme Court justice.
What is life?
400
Most decisions are based on this word, which means 'let the decision stand'.
What is stare decisis?
400
What is the term for the Fed Board of Governors?
What is 14 years?
500
Created in 1913 & the main instrument for creating monetary policy
What is the Federal Reserve?
500
There are _______ district court judges in the U.S.
What is 678?
500
Each session of the Supreme Court begins on _________ and ends in _____________.
What is the first Monday in October and June.
500
This case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison 1803?
500
Which economist argued that it was okay for the government to spend and create large deficits in an attempt to prevent a recession or depression?
Who is John Maynard Keynes?
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