Unit 7 Vocab Quiz

writ of certiorari

• A formal writ used to bring a case before the Supreme Court.

• The authority to hear a case first

• Review of the results of a trial by a higher court

• A member of the supreme court

Federal Circuit Court

• The jurisdiction of courts that hear a case first, usually in a trial. These are the courts that determine the facts about a case.

• the middle level of the federal judiciary; these courts review and hear appeals from the federal district courts

• An intermediate appellate court of the U.S. federal court system that decides appeals from the district court within its particular judicial circuit

• the lowest level of the federal judiciary; these courts usually have original jurisdiction in cases that start at the federal level

Separation of Powers

• An intermediate appellate court of the U.S. federal court system that decides appeals from the district court within its particular judicial circuit

• Constitutional division of powers among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, with the legislative branch making law, the executive applying and enforcing the law, and the judiciary interpreting the law

• A structure where each court higher in a ladder hears appeals from the court below. Decisions of a court higher in the hierarchy bind courts below it

• Fed. Gov. must have a basis for doing something and must be able to point to somewhere in the constitution that allows them to do what they are doing.

The jurisdiction of courts that hear a case first, usually in a trial. These are the courts that determine the facts about a case.

• writ of certiorari

• original jurisdiction

• judicial review

• hierarchy of courts

Fed. Gov. must have a basis for doing something and must be able to point to somewhere in the constitution that allows them to do what they are doing.

• Judicial Independence

• Congressional Limitations

• Cooperative Federalism

• Constitutional Basis

This case establishes the Supreme Court's power of Judicial Review

• Mcculloch v. Maryland

• Brown v. board of education

• Plessy v. Ferguson

• Marbury v. Madison

judicial restraint

• A judicial philosophy in which judges play minimal policymaking roles, leaving that duty strictly to the legislatures

• review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.

• Judicial independence

• Judicial discretion

established the supremacy of the national government over state governments.

• Gibbons v. Ogden

• McColloch v. Maryland

• Mcdonald v. Chicago

• Marbury v. Madison

Appellate Review

• section of the constitution laying out powers and responsibilities of the judicial branch

• review of the results of a trial by a higher court

• a member of the supreme court

• the crime of betraying one's country

Judicial Review

• the authority of a court to hear a case

• review by the US Supreme Court of the constitutional validity of a legislative act.

• review of the results of a trial by a higher court

• review of the results of a trial by a higher court