Judicial Branch
Constitutional Amendments
Supreme Court Cases
Courts (Judicial Branch)
Supreme Court Decisions
100
Person whose job it is to appoint federal judges
What is President?
100
Amendment that gave 18 year olds the right to vote
What is the 26th Amendment?
100
Which Supreme Court case supported the idea that races can be "separate but equal"?
Plessy vs Ferguson
100

Makes arrests, issues subpoenas 

Who are the U.S. Marshals?

100

True or False: The Supreme Court has the power to decide if the actions of the other two branches are unconstitutional.

What is True? This is called Judical Review

200
Total Number Of Justices in the Supreme Court.
What is 9
200
The Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is Thirteenth Amendment
200
In which supreme court case did the practice of "Police informaing suspects of their rights before questioning" first come into play?
What is Miranda v. Arizona
200

Another name for a Judge

What is a magistrate?

200
True or false: The Supreme Court is forced to choose all the cases that are appealed to it.
What is False? They make their own choices as to which cases to hear. Normally they hear cases regarding the Constitution that affect the nation as a whole. Big impact cases.
300
Length of a term for all Supreme Court Justices.
What is Life
300
Amendment that granted African Americans the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
300

Under which President's term did the supreme court decide that Presidents were not above the law?

What is Nixon?

300

Government lawyers who prosecute cases. 

Who are U.S. Attorneys?

300
Why is Brown vs. Board considered a landmark case?
it ended segregation in public schools.
400
What is the main role of the judicial branch?
To interpret the law... make sense of what the law really says..
400
Amendment that allow women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
400

Three students were suspended from school for refusing to remove black armbands they had worn to campus as a protest of the Vietnam War. 

What is Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District?

400

Primary goal of the federal courts?

What is "Equal Justice for All"?
400

In Brown v Board of Education ruled that it violated the _________ Amendment.

What is the 13th Amendment?

500

How many 'levels' are there in the Federal Court system? 

What is 3? Trial Court (District Court), Court of Appeals, Supreme Court

500

Amendment that gives the President two terms 

What is the 22nd Amendment?

500
Which supreme court case established the doctrine of "judicial review"
What is Marbury v. Madison
500

A courts authority to hear and decide a case

What is jurisdiction?

500

Santa Fe Independent School District v. Jane Doe was over what issue 

What is School Prayer?

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