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This refers to the armed citizenry.
What is a militia?
This is a written statement issued by a judge which gives a law officer the legal right to search for a particular thing in a specific place.
What is a warrant?
This is the idea that the Supreme Court should interpret and apply the Constitution according to the original understanding of those who wrote and ratified it.
What is Judicial restraint?
This is the idea that the Supreme Court should go beyond the Constitution to change societal behavior.
What is judicial activism?
This refers to an official examination of available evidence in a court of law.
What is a trial?
The final stages of the Supreme Court’s decision-making process is called this.
What is Opinion Day?
This group assembles to examine evidence to determine whether there is sufficient evidence against the accused to try a case.
What is a grand jury?
This is the power to decide whether or not to hear a case.
What is discretionary review?
These are the courts created by Congress under the authority given it in Article III.
What are the constitutional courts?
They are chief decision makers of the federal judiciary.
Who are judges?
This serves to remind the justices on the Supreme Court that difference of opinion do not preclude harmony of purpose.
What is the "conference handshake?"
This jury assembles to hear a case court to issue a verdict.
What is a trial jury?
These are past decisions involving similar cases.
What are precedents?
This refers to the right of a court to hear a decide a case.
What is jurisdiction?
This describes a statement of an individual citizen’s legal privileges.
The highest court in the land
What is is the United States Supreme Court?
This is material presented as proof at a trial.
What is evidence?
This is a lawyer’s written argument.
What is a brief?
This is the professional interest group that has the most influence on the President regarding his choice of a federal judge
What is the American Bar Association?
In Marbury v. Madison, he was the chief justice that ruled in the case.
Who is John Marshall?
This is the right of a court to review to ruling of a lower court.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
This states that evidence obtained illegally is not admissible in court.
What is the exclusionary rule?
This is a request that a higher court review the case that records and verdict of the lower court.
What is an appeal?
The current number of justices that serve on the Supreme Court
What is nine?
This famous case asserted for the Supreme Court the right of judicial review.
What is Mabury v. Madison?