Constitution Vocabulary

The authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts

• Inherent Powers

• Judicial Review

• Writ Of Certiorari

• 
  Appellate Jurisdiction

a law that punishes a person accused of a crime without a trial or a fair hearing in court

• Bill of Rights

• Bill of Attainder

• Writ of Certiorari

• Writ of Habeas Corpus

the authority to hear cases for the first time

• Original jurisdiction

• Reserved powers

• Judicial review

• Writ of certiorari

Allows the court to determine the constitutionality of laws

• 
  Appellate Jurisdiction

• Judicial Review

• Due Process Of Law

• Writ Of Certiorari

Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution, which allows Congress to make all laws that are "necessary and proper" to carry out the powers of the Constitution.

• 
  Elastic Clause

• Reserved Powers

• Original Jurisdiction

• Concurrent Powers

following established legal procedures

• Judicial Review

• Ex Post Facto Law

• Due Process of Law

• Bill of Rights

powers claimed by a president that are not expressed in the Constitution but are inferred from it

• Concurrent Powers

• Reserved Powers

• Delegated Powers

• Inherent Powers

term for the president as commander of the nation's armed forces

• Chief Legislator

• Chief Diplomat

• Commander-in-Chief

• Chief Executive

Powers held jointly by the national and state governments.

• Concurrent Powers

• Inherent Powers

• Delegated Powers

• Delegated Powers

A court order that requires police to bring a prisoner to court to explain why they are holding the person

• Ex Post Facto Law

• Writ of Habeas Corpus

• Bill of Attainder

• Writ of Certiorari