Judicial Branch and Landmark Supreme Court Cases

The government must always act fairly and in accord with established rules. This is known as ____________.

• parliamentary procedure

• due process

• fair play

• protocol

All federal judges are appointed to Constitutional Courts serve a term of ____________.

• 5 years

• 10 years

• life

• 15 years

A justice writes a ___________ when he or she agrees with the majority opinion but for a different reason.

• dissenting opinion

• concurring opinion

• judicial order

• brief

In the case of Wickard v. Filburn, the Supreme Court effectively broadened Congress's use of the _________ clause of the Constitution.

• Supremacy

• Necessary and Proper

• Commerce

• Extradition

Most cases reach the Supreme Court through the issuance of a _______________.

• certificate

• majority opinion

• writ of certiorari

• judicial order

A Supreme Court decision sets a(n) ____________ which lower courts will often follow when making decisions in similar cases which come before them in the future.

• trial court date

• precedent

• judicial circuit

• oral argument date

The decisions of the United States Supreme Court in Mapp v. Ohio, Miranda v. Arizona, and Gideon v. Wainwright advanced the ____________.

• rights of the accused persons

• voting rights of minorities

• principle of separation of church and state

• gurantees of free speech and press

The Federal Court of Appeals have ____________ jurisdiction.

• exclusive

• concurrent

• original

• appellate

In Kelo v. New London, the Supreme Court ruled that government could take private property for economic benefit of a community through _________.

• due process

• habeas corpus

• judicial review

• eminent domain

Federal District Courts have ________________ jurisdiction.

• appellate

• exclusive

• concurrent

• original