Esbeck Government Unit 7: The Judicial Branch

The highest court in the land is the US –

• Court of Appeals
• Supreme Court
• District Court
• High Court

The president appoints Supreme Court justices to serve ___ terms.

• 1 year
• 5 year
• 10 year
• lifelong

There are ____ justices are on the Supreme Court.

• 5
• 9
• 12
• 15

The head of the Supreme Court is known as the _____.

• Superior Judge
• Chief Justice
• Chief Courter
• Speaker of the Court

This case established the policy of judicial review

• Brown vs. Board of Education
• Tinker vs. Des Moines
• Marbury vs. Madison
• McCulloch vs Maryland

____ decides which cases the Supreme Court hears.

• the court itself
• the president
• Congress
• they must hear all cases that are appealed to them

What is Judicial Review?

• The Supreme Court shaping polices by addressing social and political issues.
• A clause stating that no state may deprive a person of life, liberty, or property.
• The Supreme Court avoids taking the initiative on social and political questions.
• The Supreme Court's power to declare laws unconstitutional.

A court’s authority to hear and decide cases is its –

• judicial review
• writ of certiorari
• jurisdiction
• stare decisis

A ___ is in regard to a noncriminal matter such as a contract dispute or a claim of patent infringement.

• criminal case
• certificate
• civilian tribunal
• civil case

When a person who lost a case in a lower court asks judges to review that decision and reverse it, they ask the –

• district court
• appellate court
• county court
• trial court