Sources of Law
Equal Justice Under the Law
The Federal Court System
The Supreme Court
Separate but Equal
100
Many laws that affect our daily lives are created by government agencies.
What are administrative laws?
100
An illegal behavior.
What is a crime?
100
Trial courts
What are district courts?
100
number of justices
What is 9?
100
The head lawyer for the NAACP.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
200
The Supreme Law of the Land
What is the Constitution?
200
Disputes between people.
What is civil law?
200
Means relating to appeals
What is appellate?
200
explains the reason for which the justice agrees with the majority decision but for a different reason
What is a concurring opinion?
200
The state in which the Clarendon County schools were located.
What is South Carolina?
300
Based on precedent and tradition.
What is common law?
300
Motto carved above the Supreme Court building in Washington D.C.
What is "equal justice under the law?"
300
District courts have this which the Court of Appeals does not
What is original jurisdiction?
300
Size of the Supreme Court is determined by
What is Congress?
300
The principal at the Scott Branch School and the one who began the petition.
Who is Reverend Delane?
400
Usually represent majority rule or what most citizens believe to be right or wrong.
What is statutory law?
400
Ensures that the law and proper court procedures are followed during the trial.
What is the judge?
400
Term life of a federal judge
What is for life?
400
Judicial review was initially used by this case
What is Marbury v. Madison?
400
The name of the case that officially ended segregation in US public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
500
He is credited with putting together the earliest known written collection of laws around 1780 BC
Who is Hammurabi?
500
the parties in a case are entitled to a jury as stated by this amendment
What is the 6th Amendment?
500
scope of authority that a court has to hear and decide cases
What is jurisdiction?
500
The case which established the doctrine of Separate but Equal
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500
The name of the Chief Justice who united the court and overturned the policy of Separate but Equal.
Who is Chief Justice Earl Warren?
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