Reviewing The Courts and Judicial Review

Reviewing The Courts and Judicial Review

Multiple Choice

Which of the courts you learned about can only handle "appellate" jurisdiction?

• District Courts

• The Supreme Court

• Circuit Courts

• These are all true.

Multiple Choice

Which court or courts were created in the US Constitution?

• The Supreme Court

• The Circuit Courts

• The District Courts

• All of these are true.

Multiple Choice

If a court with appellate jurisdiction "remands" a case, what happens?

• It gets sent up to the Supreme Court

• It gets decided right there.

• It gets sent back to trial courts for retrial.

• Nothing happens.

Multiple Choice

What does appellate jurisdiction consist of?

• Reviewing decisions from trial courts.

• Accepting appeals from lower courts.

• Panels of judges deciding, not juries.

• All of these are true.

Use this chart to answer the question on the next slide.

Multiple Choice

Which statement most accurately reflects the Supreme Court in the Constitution according to the chart?

• The Constitution specifies an exact number of Justices on the Court.

• Judicial Review was laid out in the US Constitution.

• The Court has varied wildly in size from the 9 it has today.

• The Constitution left the details of the Courts up to Congress.

The chart shows

The size of the Court has changed several times - so it is not specifically required in the Constitution. But it has stayed around the same number of 9, so it has not "varied wildly." This chart does not involve judicial review.

Judicial Review Section

Questions about the basics of Judicial Review Day

Multiple Choice

What is the most accurate definition of Judicial Review?

• Supreme Court power to review laws and Presidential actions for Constitutionality.

• Supreme Court role in the Bill to Law Process

• Supreme Court power to hear cases from lower courts.

• President and Congress's power to review Judicial decisions.

Multiple Choice

Where is Judicial Review found in the Constitution in?

• Article 3

• The Bill of Rights

• The Preamble

• Nowhere.

Multiple Choice

What is the basic idea of stare decisis?

• The intent of the founding fathers is all that matters in deciding cases.

• Judges should start fresh with each new case, ignoring old ones..

• Old decisions should not be overturned without great reason.

• Courts should never overrule Congress.

Multiple Choice

The first instance of Judicial Review was found in

• The case of Marbury v. Madison

• The overturning of part of the Judiciary Act of 1789

• Judge John Marshall's clever way of establishing it without angering the other branches.

• All of these are true.

Use the Graph to answer the question which follows.

• The number on the left is number of laws reviewed by the courts in that year.

Multiple Choice

Based on the graph, which statement about the power of Judicial Review must be correct?

• The Supreme Court reviews laws as part of the normal Bill to Law Process

• The Courts do not have the power to overturn laws.

• The Court overturns a high percentage of Federal Laws.

• Extremely few laws are ever reviewed by the courts, and even fewer overturned.

The Graph Shows

That the total numbers of laws looked at by the Court is low - in the single digits or teens, and many of those are upheld. So it cannot be part of the Bill to law process - thousands of bills are in that process, hundreds become laws. It also does not overturn a high percentage of laws. But they do have the power - and it is rarely used.

Court Case Section

The next few questions will involve Court Cases you worked on (or are working on) as part of your assignment. For this, and for the test, you will need some main idea information about the Constitutional principles involved and importance.

These are the cases on the AP test, and several are also eligible for the EOC.

Multiple Choice

The Court overruled a Presidential Action, which had tried to stop a newspaper from printing the Pentagon Papers, because it violated 1st Amendment Press Freedom

• New York Times Co v. United States

• Marbury v. Madison

• US v. Lopez

• Citizens United v. FEC

Multiple Choice

Citizens United v. FEC Said

• The United States can establish a national bank, and states cannot destroy it, based on Supremacy Clause

• A state government cannot force Amish children to attend public school based on 1st Amendment

• Corporations are people, and can spend money on elections as free speech based on 1st amendment.

• Judicial Review is allowed, based on intent of the founders.

Multiple Choice

In overturning a school gun ban, the Supreme Court overruled

• A Federal law, restricting the scope of the Commerce Clause.

• A State law, reducing state's rights under Federalism.

• A Presidential action, reducing executive power.

• A previous SCOTUS Precedent, depowering stare decisis.

Multiple Choice

The Supreme Court overturned a state law in

• Wisconsin v. Yoder

• New York Times Co. v. United States

• US v. Lopez

• Marbury v. Madison

Use the cartoon to answer the following question.

Multiple Choice

Which court case best reflects the conflict depicted in the cartoon?

• New York Times Co v. US

• McCullough v. Maryland

• Marbury v. Madison

• Citizens United v. FEC

The Cartoon shows

A conflict between state and national governments, as states want Federal benefits but not to accept Federal authority. Of the choices, only McCullough v. Maryland is based around a state v. national conflict over what the national government can or cannot do (make a bank) and whether a state can affect it (tax it.)