The Judicial Branch Chapter 8 Section 1 CLUES

#1 The court case where detained Japanese Americans were released and returned home

#2 Disagreements between state governments are resolved in these courts

#3 The Article dealing with the federal courts

#4 The number of judicial circuits

#5 The kind of case where you feel your freedom of assembly has been violated

#6 The kind of case where the government accuses you of kidnapping

#7 The kind of case where Alabama and Florida disagree over rights of shrimp boat workers

#8 Japanese American forced to leave her job and was placed in a relocation camp during World War II

#9 The reason District 3 is smaller than District 10

#10 This circuit covers the largest geographical area

#11 The goal of the legal system

#12 The caption in front of the U.S. Supreme Court building

#13 The # of levels in the federal court system

#14 This established federal district courts and circuit courts of appeals

#15 The bottom level of the federal court system

#16 The middle level of the federal court system

#17 The top level of the federal court system

#18 This often gets in the way of judges and juries when looking at a case

#19 The circuit Alabama is in

Chapter 8 Section 2 CLUES

#20 The largest circuit court which includes Guam

#21 Federal judges serve for this length of time

#22 They make arrests, collect fines, and take convicted persons to prison

#23 A court order requiring someone to appear in court

#24 This person appoints judges

#25 A federal judge can only be removed from office in this way

#26 The qualifications for federal judges given by the Constitution

#27 They decide if arrested people should stay in jail or set free on bail

#28 They review decisions made in lower district courts

#29 The # of U.S. Courts of Appeals

#30 This appeals court hears cases involving international trade

#31 Lawyers from an appeals court may appeal to this

#32 The # of district courts

#33 Lawsuits begin in these courts

#34 These courts have judges and juries

#35 These courts have judges but no jury

#36 This court has justices but no jury

#37 They are head of the Justice Department

#38 Appeals may be decided in these 3 ways

Chapter 8 Section 3 CLUES

#39 The main job of the Supreme Court

#40 The Supreme Court will not rule on a law unless this has happened

#41 The 2 ways a person becomes a Supreme Court justice

#42 The change that has occurred in the caseload of the Supreme Court since 1945

#43 2 ways the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction

#44 The famous court case in 1803

#45 He made William Marbury a justice

#46 He told James Madison NOT to allow Marbury to become a justice

#47 John Marshall’s 3 principles of judicial review

#48 The important power established because of the Marbury case

#49 They set the # of Supreme Court justices

#50 This president refused to obey a Supreme Court ruling in 1832

#51 The president checks the power of the Supreme Court in these 2 ways

#52 The 4th chief justice of the Supreme Court AND the # of years served

#53 What is the “Court’s opinion?”

#54 The largest national organization of attorneys

#55 The # of associate justices on the Supreme Court

#56 1st female justice on the Supreme Court AND the year appointed

#57 1st African American justice on the Supreme Court AND year appointed

Chapter 8 Section 4 CLUES

#58 The month the Supreme Court begins to meet

#59 2 kinds of disputes in the Supreme Court

#60 The # of justices needed to accept a case

#61 About how many cases does the Supreme Court hear on a yearly basis?

#62 Name the 5 steps the Supreme Court goes through when accepting a case (in order)

#63 The case that overturned Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

#64 The # of justices needed to be present when a decision is made

#65 This is when all justices vote the SAME way

#66 The reason the Supreme Court prints its opinions

#67 The amendment # used to assist the Supreme Court with deciding Bush v. Gore

#68 The state Homer Plessy was from

#69 The city AND state of the case – Brown v. Board of Education

#70 The ruling which guarantees you the right to be informed of your rights if you are arrested

#71 The ruling that you have the right to legal counsel during a trial if you are convicted of a crime

#72 The ruling legalizing a woman’s right to an abortion

#73 The ruling showing the national government (gov’t) is supreme

#74 The ruling showing flag burning is just expressive speech

#75 The ruling showing the President is NOT above the law (look in back of book)

#76 The ruling showing that students protesting the Vietnam War were protected when they wore black arm bands to school (look in back of book)

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