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Understanding the Judicial Branch and Supreme Court Legitimacy

Authored by Brody Channell

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12th Grade

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Understanding the Judicial Branch and Supreme Court Legitimacy
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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What leads to debate about the legitimacy of the Supreme Court's power?

The Supreme Court's role in the legislative process

The election process of federal judges

The ability of the Supreme Court to enforce laws

The exercise of judicial review in conjunction with life tenure

2.

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Why were the Anti-Federalists concerned about lifetime appointments of federal judges?

They thought judges would be too young

They were concerned about the cost

They preferred elected judges

They believed it would lead to tyranny

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What is the power of judicial review?

The power to make laws

The power to execute laws

The power to rule on the constitutionality of laws

The power to appoint Supreme Court justices

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What did Alexander Hamilton argue in Federalist 78?

That lifetime appointments protected liberty

That the Supreme Court should not have judicial review

That the judicial branch was the weakest branch

That lifetime appointments would lead to tyranny

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What establishes a precedent in the Supreme Court's decision-making process?

A law passed by Congress

A ruling on a case

A public opinion poll

A presidential executive order

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What does 'stare decisis' mean?

To overturn a decision

To make a new law

Let the decision stand

To question a precedent

7.

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30 sec • 1 pt

Which case established the precedent that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional?

Plessy vs. Ferguson

Planned Parenthood v. Casey

United States v. Nixon

Brown vs. the Board of Education

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