Basic Roles
The role of the Judicial Branch.
What is review and interpret the laws?
Asking for a higher court to review a decision.
What is an appeal?
Creates all other courts except the Supreme Court.
What is Congress?
Limit of times your case can be appealed.
Court case that established Judicial Review.
What is Marbury v Madison?
Justices on the Supreme Court serve for these many years.
What is for life?
The term for when the Supreme Court makes a new decision on a court case and declares the original case unconstitutional.
What is overturn?
The number of judges in each trial (aka district) court.
What is 1 judge per trial court?
The number of justices required to hear a case.
What is the Rule of 4?
Two Supreme Court Cases that deal with segregation.
What is Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v the Board of Education?
Appoints justices to the Supreme Court.
Who is the president?
The 3 levels of the federal court system in order of most powerful to least powerful.
What is the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, and the District courts?
Once evidence is brought against you, this group of citizens will hear your criminal trial for the first time.
What is a grand jury?
The 3 types of opinions the Supreme Court can give on a case.
What is Majority opinion, Concurring opinion, and Dissenting opinion?
Court Case that established African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
The power of the Supreme Court to declare something unconstitutional.
What is judicial review?
The two court systems.
What is the federal and state court systems?
Reasons a case may be accepted by a Court of Appeals.
What is if there was something mishandled in the original trial court?
What is recuse?
The court case that gave Congress implied powers (Hint: Think of the Elastic Clause)
What is McCulloch v Maryland?
The chief justice is like any other justice but has this ceremonial role connected to the inauguration.
What is swears in the president?
The two types of trials (Hint one is outlined in the 6th Amendment and the other is outlined by the 7th Amendment).
What is criminal and civil trials.
The 4 types of jurisdiction.
What is Original, Appellate, Concurrent, and Exclusive?
Explain how a Supreme Court hearing works.
The court case where two men argued over New York waterways, eventually leading to the Interstate Commerce Clause.
What is Gibbons v Ogden?