1. What do you call a sleeping bull?
The Judicial System
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What do you call a sleeping bull?
A bulldozer!

2. Standard 10a
Essential Understandings: The judicial function is exercised in a dual court system, which consists of state courts and federal courts.
Essential Questions: How are federal courts organized, and what jurisdiction does each exercise? How are state courts organized, and what jurisdiction does each exercise?
Vocabulary: dual court system, jurisdiction, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, U.S. District Court, Virginia Supreme Court, Virginia Court of Appeals, Virginia Circuit Courts, General District Courts, Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, small claims court

3. Candy Questions

4. Which fundamental political principle means that the government and those who govern are bound by the law?

5. Which early document established the first written plan of government for the U.S.?

6. Which purpose of the government according to the Preamble is illustrated here?

7. Who may propose an amendment to the U.S. Constitution?

8. Which amendment to the U. S
Which amendment to the U.S. Constitution defines citizenship and protects due process rights from actions of the states?

9. Which First Amendment freedom is illustrated here?

10. List three of your four civic duties.

11. Where do we find differences between the political parties?

12. Why did Congress write campaign finance reform laws?

13. How many days before the general election is voter registration closed in Virginia?

15. The judicial function is exercised in a dual court system, which consists of state courts and federal courts.

16. The United States has a separate court system whose organization and jurisdiction are derived from the Constitution of the United States of America and federal laws.

17. Virginia, like each of the other forty-nine states, has its own court system whose organization and jurisdiction are derived from Virginia’s constitution and state laws.

18. United States Court System

19. Jurisdiction: Original for felony criminal cases
U.S. District Court
Judge with juries
Jurisdiction: Original for felony criminal cases

20. Jurisdiction: Appellate
U.S. Court of Appeals
Justices / no jury
Jurisdiction: Appellate

21. Justices / no jury Jurisdiction: Appellate and Limited Original
United States Supreme Court
Justices / no jury
Jurisdiction: Appellate and Limited Original

22. Virginia Court System

23. General District Court and Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court
Judge / no jury
Original jurisdiction of misdemeanors and civil cases generally involving lower dollar amounts and original jurisdiction in juvenile and family cases

24. Appellate jurisdiction from general district courts.
Circuit Court
Judge and jury
Original jurisdiction for felony criminal cases and for certain civil cases
Appellate jurisdiction from general district courts.

25. Court of Appeals of Virginia Judges / no jury
Appellate jurisdiction – reviews decisions of circuit courts

26. Virginia Supreme Court Justices / no jury
Court of final appeal (Appellate jurisdiction)
Limited original jurisdiction

27. On the left-hand side of your notebook, write these words and their definitions from the textbook. You need to understand these terms in order to understand this unit!
Plaintiff 14) Lawsuit
Defendant 15) Jury of peers
Original jurisdiction 16) Due process of law
Appeal
Appellate jurisdiction
Felony
Misdemeanor
Civil law
Criminal law
Probable cause
Warrant
Arraignment
Bail