Judicial Branch Review

What is the power to judge whether or not a law is constitutional?

• Judicial sanction

• Judicial review

• Judicial allowance

• Judicial constitutionalism

True or false: judicial review is an enumerated power in the Constitution

• True

• False

What are laws prohibiting behavior the government has determined to be harmful to society?

• Criminal law

• Civil law

• Common law

• Social law

What is the part of the legal system that is based on the accumulated rulings of judges over time?

• Criminal law

• Civil law

• Common law

• Social law

What is a legal system based on a detailed comprehensive legal code, usually created by the legislature?

• Criminal law

• Civil law

• Common law

• Social law

Which case resulted in the Supreme Court developing the power of judicial review?

• McCulloch v. Maryland

• Brown v. Board of Education

• Shaw v. Reno

• Marbury v. Madison

What is the authority that a court has to hear a certain kind of case?

• Regionalism

• Apportionment

• Jurisdiction

• Common law

What is the authority of a court to hear a case when it is first tried?

• Original jurisdiction

• Appellate jurisdiction

• Common law

• Criminal law

What is the authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts?

• Original jurisdiction

• Appellate jurisdiction

• Common law

• Criminal law

What is a writ of certiorari?

• A request by the executive branch for a case to be heard

• A request by a party in a case for an appeal

• A formal request from SCOTUS to call a case up

• A formal request for a case to not go to an appeals court