Please study the section reviews for chapter 9 and the following questions to study for your test on the Judicial Branch. There are notes in the Notes Section of this website that will help you answer the questions.
TEST: MONDAY (Even) TUESDAY (ODD)
Study Guide Questions for the Judicial Branch
1. The majority of the job of the Supreme Court is to decide whether laws or actions by
the government officials are allowed by which document?
2. What kind of decision may the Court issue when all justices agree on a decision and
the reasoning behind it?
3. What is the name of the power to say whether any federal, state or local law or
government action goes against the Constitution?
4. When an appeals court makes a decision on a case the judge, what does a judge write
outlining a detailed explanation for their decision?
5. All federal cases must begin in district court because they have what power to hear a
case for the first time?
6. When a case has been tried by a district court and it gets appealed it is handed over
to which of court because they appellate jurisdiction before the Supreme Court does?
7. How many justices must vote to hear a Supreme Court case?
8. What power was given when Chief Justice John Marshall declared actions by the
Executive Branch unconstitutional?
9. What did Justice Marshall establish that the Constitution was in his laws of judicial
review?
10. What is filed when a Supreme Court asks to review a decision of a lower court?
11. What is used during civil litigation to promptly dispose a case without a trial and
usually used when there is no dispute as to the material facts of the case?
12. What is the most significant component about the powers of judicial review to the
Judicial Branch?
TEST: MONDAY (Even) TUESDAY (ODD)
Study Guide Questions for the Judicial Branch
1. The majority of the job of the Supreme Court is to decide whether laws or actions by
the government officials are allowed by which document?
2. What kind of decision may the Court issue when all justices agree on a decision and
the reasoning behind it?
3. What is the name of the power to say whether any federal, state or local law or
government action goes against the Constitution?
4. When an appeals court makes a decision on a case the judge, what does a judge write
outlining a detailed explanation for their decision?
5. All federal cases must begin in district court because they have what power to hear a
case for the first time?
6. When a case has been tried by a district court and it gets appealed it is handed over
to which of court because they appellate jurisdiction before the Supreme Court does?
7. How many justices must vote to hear a Supreme Court case?
8. What power was given when Chief Justice John Marshall declared actions by the
Executive Branch unconstitutional?
9. What did Justice Marshall establish that the Constitution was in his laws of judicial
review?
10. What is filed when a Supreme Court asks to review a decision of a lower court?
11. What is used during civil litigation to promptly dispose a case without a trial and
usually used when there is no dispute as to the material facts of the case?
12. What is the most significant component about the powers of judicial review to the
Judicial Branch?