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AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
Worksheet #8 The Federal Courts Chapter 16
1. How does someone become a federal court judge? For how long do they serve? Why?_________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 2. What are the criticisms the book mentions about the federal judiciary? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. We have an adversarial judicial system on the basis of what theory was this system founded? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. In addition to the U. S Supreme Court, how many courts of Appeal are there? Federal District Courts? State Courts? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. What is the Judge's role? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 6. What are the two basic types of cases? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
What is the difference?_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 7. What is meant by "cases or controversies"? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 8. What is an "advisory opinion"? __________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________________
9. What are the names given to the parties in a legal dispute? ____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Which one brings the case to court? __________________________________________________________________
10. What is standing to sue? __________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 11. What is a class action suit? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 12. What is a justiciable suit? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 13. What is an amicus brief? Who uses it? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 14. What is original jurisdiction? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 15. What is appellate jurisdiction? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
16. What are District Courts? To what types of cases does their jurisdiction extend? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 17. What do Courts of Appeal do? _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 18. Over what cases does the Supreme Court have original jurisdiction? ______________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ From where is it derived? _____________________________________________
19. What is the background of recent federal District and Appeals Court Judges? ______________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 20. List the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ 21. Who is the Chief Justice?____________________________________________
22. List the Supreme Court's Decision-making Process: _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
23. Define the following: Stare decisis_________________________________________________________ Precedents__________________________________________________________ Judicial review________________________________________________________ Judicial restraint_______________________________________________________ Judicial activism______________________________________________________ Political questions____________________________________________________
24. Compare the Warren Court with the Burger Court and the Rhenquist Court : _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________
25. How does the Supreme Court influence life in America?______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ |
