Vocab
A type of case where people accused of crime appear in court for a trial.
What is a Criminal Case?
Courts can say a law made by congress is unconstitutional.
What is a Judicial Check on the Legislative Branch?
This 1954 case ended segregation in public schools.
What is Brown V. Board?
Federal judges serve this long.
What is For life?
These are the two main types of U.S. Courts.
What are State Courts and Federal Courts?
The authority to review cases from lower courts to make decisions.
What is Appellate Jurisdiction?
The president appoints federal judges and supreme court justices.
What is a check on Judicial Branch by the Executive Branch?
This case established Judicial Review.
What is Marbury V. Madison?
This type of jurisdiction means the court is the first to hear the case.
What is Original Jurisdiction?
The lowest level of Federal Courts.
What are District Courts?
A group of 12 people who review evidence during a trial and decide the verdict.
What is a Trial Jury?
Congress approves judges and can remove them.
What is a Legislative Check on the Judicial Branch?
This case ruled that the accused must be informed of their rights during an arrest.
What is Miranda V. Arizona?
This term means following decisions made by earlier courts.
What is Precedent?
The Court of Appeals has this type of jurisdiction.
What is Appellate Jurisdiction?
A group of people that examine evidence to determine whether there is a probable cause to bring an accused person to trial.
What is a Grand Jury?
Higher Courts can change or reverse lower court decisions.
What is a Judicial Check on the Judicial
Branch?
The court ruled that racial segregation was constitutional as long as facilities were “separate but equal.”
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
The Supreme Court uses this power to overturn laws that violate the constitution.
What is declaring a law unconstitutional?
This is the level of courts directly below the Supreme Court.
What are the Court of Appeals?
Asserts that judicial review should be constrained to decisions that adhere to current constitutional and case precedent.
What is Judicial Restraint?
Courts can say a presidents actions are unconstitutional.
What is a Judicial Check on the Executive Branch?
The Court ruled that students have First Amendment rights at schools as long as their actions don’t disrupt learning.
What is Tinker V. Des Moines?
*Double Jeopardy*
This power, established by Marbury v. Madison, changed the role of the Supreme Court by allowing it to overturn laws.
What is Judicial Review?
This is the term for the authority a court has to hear and decide a case.
What is Jurisdiction?