Judicial Vocabulary 1

The authority to hear and deicide a case is called ______

• Judicial restraint

• Jurisdiction

• Plaintiff

• Precedent

When only one court has the sole right to hear a case, this is known as _____________

• Appelleate Jurisdiction

• Defendant

• Judicial restraint

• Exclusive Jurisdiction

When both state and federal courts have the right to hear a case, this is called__________

• exclusive jurisdiction
• limited jurisdiction
• original jurisdiction
• concurrent jurisdiction

The person who makes a legal complaint is the

• witness
• plaintiff
• defendant
• judge

The person against whom a legal complaint is filed is the

• judge
• defendant
• witness
• plaintiff

A court's right to hear a case because it was the first court to hear it is called

• appellate jurisdiction
• exclusive jurisdiction
• concurrent jurisdiction
• original jurisdiction

A court's right to hear a case once it has been appealed from a lower court is called

• appellate jurisdiction
• concurrent jurisdiction
• original jurisdiction
• exclusive jurisdiction

The idea that a judge should interpret the Constitution according to the Framers' original intent is called

• Textualism

• Judicial Restraint

• Living Constitutionalism

• Judicial Activism

The concept that judges can adapt the meaning of the Constitution to contemporary realities is called

• constitutional amendment
• judicial activism
• strict constructionism
• judicial restraint

Previous court ruling on a given legal question are known as

• statute
• regulation
• directive
• precedent