Judicial Review

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

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

Federal District Courts have ________________ jurisdiction.

• appellate

• exclusive

• concurrent

• original

The Supreme Court case of Tinker v. Des Moines involved the issue of ____.

• Freedom of religion

• Freedom of the Press

• The rights of prison inmates

• The rights of students in school

In the case of Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court ruled that _________ was a protected form of speech.

• rioting

• traffic blocking

• dodging the draft

• flag burning

The two types of federal courts are _________________.

Responses

• family and criminal courts

• civil and military courts

• tennis and basketball courts

• Constitutional and special courts