Topic 7: Powers of the Judicial Branch

What is the main job of the Judicial Branch?

• to enforce laws

• to make laws

• to interpret laws

​ ​ (a)   Associate Judges + ​ ​ (b)   ​ Chief Justice = ​ (c)   Supreme Court Justices

• 8
• I
• 9

Judicial Review is...

• Creating laws

• Interpreting laws

• Determining if laws are Constitutional or not

Put the following courts in the correct order from BIGGEST to SMALLEST

• The Supreme Court

• District Courts

• Appellate Courts

The power of the Supreme Court to declare laws and actions of local, state, or national governments unconstitutional

• Judicial Review
• Judicial Restraint
• Judicial Activism
• Advisory Opinion

The authority of a trial court to be the first to hear a case

• Original Jurisdiction
• Writ of Certiorari
• Amicus Curiae
• Judicial Review

A legal principle create by an appellate court decision that lower court judges must follow when deciding similar cases

• Precedent
• Writ of Certiorari
• Rule of Four
• Amicus Curiae

An order from the Supreme Court to a lower court to send up the records on a case for review

• Writ of Certiorari
• Amicus Curiae
• Rule of Four
• Judicial Review

a judgment decided by a trial court without that case going to trial; an attempt to stop a case from going to trial

• writ of certiorari

• summary judgement

• statute

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Which article established (started) the Judicial Branch?

• Article 1

• Article 2

• Article 3

• Article 4