As ___ ___, the Supreme Court is the highest appellate tribunal in the country, with final say in the interpretation of the Constitution, acts of legislative bodies, and treaties.
If in the majority, the Chief Justice ___ the opinion of the Court or assigns it to another justice to be written.
___ arguments of the Supreme Court are usually approximately one hour in length and are open to the general public.
_____ law is enacted by a legislative body (such as Congress, a state legislature, or city council) in written form to address the needs of society.
The US is a ___ litigious society than most, but developing nations are becoming ___ litigious as well.
The ___ ___ advocates at the Constitutional Convention backed the New Jersey Plan, which outlined a federal judiciary with only a Supreme Court, and no inferior federal courts. The only trial courts would be the state courts, with a right of appeal to the federal Supreme Court.
Most delegates at the Constitutional Convention were in agreement that a separate judicial branch was needed, but there was much disagreement over the ___ the judiciary should take.
____ ____ of the this Constitution resolved, for the time being, the conflict between states' rights advocates and nationalists regarding the form the judicial branch would take under the new government.
Hamilton argued in the Federalist #78, that the judiciary, "has no influence over either the sword or the purse" and as such "the judiciary is beyond comparison the ___ of the three departments of power."
___ ___ deals with the relationship that individuals and institutions have with the state as a sovereign entity.
The court with ___ ___ of a particular kind of case is the court that by law has the sole authority to hear that case.
____ law refers to the decisions and regulations made by a government's administrative agencies in carrying out their regulatory duties established by legislation.
Providing order and predictability in society, resolving disputes, protecting individuals and property, providing for the general welfare, and protecting individual liberties are ___ functions of the law. (Be prepared to discuss how the law achieves these functions and how this benefits society.)
US government and essential tenants of our society are in some respects rooted in ____ to the law, as evidenced by the American Revolution, events leading up to the abolition of slavery, and the Civil Rights movement. (Be prepared to discuss.)
The United States ___ Courts are the trial courts in the federal judiciary, with original jurisdiction in most cases.
In the conferences where the Supreme Court justices discuss a case, the Chief Justice presides over the conference and offers an opinion first in each case, then the other justices follow in ___ order of seniority.
Constitutions, acts of legislative bodies, decisions of quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial bodies, orders and rulings of political executives, and judicial decisions are all _____ of law in the United States.
Senate Bill No. 1, which became the Judiciary Act of 1789, set up a federal judicial system with ___ levels.
Although in principle the Court is not designed to be a policymaker, in practice it ___. When there are two or more potential interpretations of a law or application of that law, the judge chooses and that interpretation or application becomes policy.
The term "___ docket" refers to the increasingly frequent practice of the Court to issue "emergency" unsigned orders without explanation of the legal reasoning behind them, nor which justices agree, where an applicant (often the Justice Department) alleges that irreparable harm will result from a lower court decision.
Litigants may appeal lower federal court decisions to the court of appeals of the ___ in which the federal district court is located.