Judicial Branch Study Guide

Highest court in the land

• U.S Supreme Court

• U.S Court of appeals

• U.S High Court

• U.S District Court

The president appoints supreme court justice for

• 1 year

• life

• 5 years

• 10 years

How many justices are on the supreme court?

• 5

• 9

• 12

• 15

The leader of the Supreme court is called the

• Head Honcho

• Chief Counter

• Chief Justice

• Speaker of the Court

This case established the policy of judicial review

• Brown vs. Board of Education

• Tinker vs. Des Moines

• Marbury vs. Madison

• McCulloch vs. Maryland

_______ decides which cases the Supreme Court hears.

• the court itself

• the president

• Congress

• they must hear all cases that are appealed to them

What is Judicial Review?

• The supreme court shaping policies by addressing social and political issues.

• A clause stating that no state may deprive a person of life, liberty, or property.

• The supreme court avoids taking the initiative on social and political questions.

• The supreme courts power to declare laws unconstitutional.

A court's authority to hear and decide cases is its -

• judicial review

• writ of certiorari

• jurisdiction

• stare decisis

A ___ is in regard to a noncriminal matter such as a contract dispute or claim of patent infringement

• criminal case

• certificate

• civilian tribunal

• civil case

When a person who lost a case in a lower court asks judges to review that decision and reverse it, they ask the -

• district court

• appellate court

• country court

• trail court