Judicial Branch Trivia
The article covers the judicial branch
What is Article 3?
What is a life term?
Trying to overthrow or betraying your country
What is treason?
Who appoints the justices?
Who is the president?
Court Case that establishes judicial review
What is Marbury v Madison?
The name of the local level courts
What are District Courts?
Was there a court system during the Articles of Confederation?
What is no?
Requirements for treason
What is two witnesses and proof of misdemeanors and high crimes?
Document that discusses the importance of the judicial branch
What is Federalist No. 78?
The Supreme Court's power to look at any local, state, or federal law to see if it is constitutional.
What is judicial review?
I don't like the decision the court gave me, where can I go?
What are the appeals court?
The number of Supreme Court Justices
What is 9?
These courts have no juries.
What is the Supreme Court?
Confirms the justices after they are appointed
What is Congress?
When the Supreme Court follows the same precedent as before.
What is a binding precedent?
The highest court on the federal level.
What is the Supreme Court?
Differences of the judicial branch compared to other branches
What is their term, their independence, their functions?
The authority of a court to hear a case for the first time.
What is original jurisdiction?
The main role of the judicial branch and the Supreme Court
What is Interpret the Constitution?
What is the winning opinion called?
What is the majority opinion (decision)?
The two tools of the Supreme Court
What is precedent and common law?
The way a justice keeps their job
What is good behavior and not getting impeached?
The authority of a court to hear a case on appeal from a lower court.
What is appellate jurisdiction?
What are the ways you can see a change at a Supreme Court Justice seat?
What is retirement, impeachment or death?
Judiciary Act of 1787
What is an act that sets up the judicial branch and the idea that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction?