Judicial Branch Exam

Match the following

• Laws engrained into the framework of the government

• Constitutional Law

• Bodies of laws developed from customs and judicial decisions.

• Common Law

• Laws written down by the legislature

• Statutory Law

Once the Supreme Court rules that a federal law is unconstitutional, there is nothing Congress can do.

• True

• False

Match the following

• The power of two or more courts to hear a case.

• Original Jurisdiction

• The right of a court to review decisions from lower courts

• Concurrent Jurisdiction

• The right of a court to hear a case for the first time.

• Appellate Jurisdiction

• The power of a court to resolve a case to the exclusion of all other courts

• Exclusive Jurisdiction

Which article in the Constitution details the Judiciary branch of our government? 

• Article 1
• Article 2
• Article 3
• Article 4

The role of the Judicial Branch is to

• enforce the laws

• create the laws

• support treaties and executive agreements

• interpret the laws

Federal Justices are selected by:

• Popular vote

• Supreme Court nomination, and Senate majority approval

• House nomination and Presidential ratification

• Presidential nomination and Senate majority approval

Which branch of government has the authority to establish "inferior" federal courts?

• Executive branch

• Legislative branch

• Judicial branch

• State legislatures

The Supreme Court's power to basically overturn a law that is ruled to be unconstitutional, is called....

• judicial efficacy

• administrative justice

• supreme power

• judicial review

The Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court gave itself the power of "Judicial Review" is....

• Adams v Onis
• Roe v Wade
• Marbury v Madison
• Marshall v Adams

What is judicial precedent?

• Where courts can't make up their mind, they choose a recent case to apply

• Where courts are bound to follow legal rules from previous cases with similar facts

• Where the courts use their powers to overrule decisions from lower courts

• Where courts are bound to apply laws made by parliament