Section #5 Vocab Review

At the federal level, the layer of appellate courts situated between the federal district (trial) courts and the Supreme Court. 

• Circuit Courts

• United States District Courts:

• Municipal Courts

• Supreme Court

A SCOTUS decision that adopted an expansive view of the supremacy clause.

• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)

• Tennessee v. Garner 1985

• Terry v. Ohio

  1968

• Schenck v. United States (1919):

The idea of vesting the legislative, judicial, and executive powers of government in separate bodies.

• Separation of Powers

• Democracy

• Separation of Government

• Seperation of Duties

In order for the federal courts to hear an appellate case, there must be some federal legal issue involved, such as a Constitutional rights violation

• Substantial Federal Question

• Separation of Powers

• Common Law

• Precedent

Courts in each of the 11 federal judicial districts of the U.S. that functions as an appellate court for the lower federal courts.

• United States Courts of Appeals

• Supreme Court

• United States Trial Courts

• United States District Courts

The trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal court system.

• United States District Courts

• United States Courts of Appeals

• Supreme Court

• Municipal Court

The body of law that regulates the activities and procedures of government agencies

• Administrative Law

• Business Law

• Civil Law

• Punitive Law

The law as established in previous court decisions; A synonym for legal precedent

• Case Law

• Civil Law

• Tort Law

• Precedent Law

A treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone that heavily influenced the law of the early United States

• Commentaries on the Laws of England:

• Magna Carta

• Metropolitan Police Act

• Bill of Rights

The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States, which relies on the articulation of legal principles in a historical succession of judicial decisions.

• Common Law

• Civil Law

• Criminal Law

• Precedent Law