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The power to interpret the law of the united states will be held by the ______, and the lower federal courts. a. District Court of Appeals b. US Supreme Court c. Texas Supreme Court b. US Supreme Court Inferior courts will be created by _____ from "time to time." a. Congress b. The President c. The Supreme Court Chief Justice a. Congress Once they are appointed, federal judges remain in office during "good behavior." In other words, they serve a ______ appointment. a. no certain amount of time b. 10 year c. Life time c. Life time ________ is the power of a court to hear a case, that tells us what kinds of cases the Supreme Court and other federal courts will hear. a. Article II b. In forma poporus c. Jurisdiction c. Jurisdiction Which of these following is the jurisdiction of the US Supreme Court a. All cases that arise under the Constitution, the laws of the United States or its treaties b. All cases that affect American Ambassadors, public officials, and public consuls c. Both a and b

c. Both a and b All cases that involve one or more ______ or the citizens of different states are heard in the US Supreme Court? a. States b. Plaintiff c. Defendant a. States The Supreme Court will have ______ in any case dealing with or affecting an Ambassador, Public Minister or Consul, or in which a state is a party. a. Jurisdiction b. Original Jurisdiction c. Appellate b. Original Jurisdiction In addition to these original jurisdiction cases, the Supreme Court will have _____ in all other cases. a. appellate jurisdiction b. Original jurisdiction c. Neither a or b a. appellate jurisdiction The vast majority cases heard by the United States Supreme court today are _______ cases. a. original b. appellate c. Neither a or b b. Appellate

The Supreme Court is the only federal court to have _____ original and appellate jurisdiction. a. Neither b. Both c. a and b b. Both This final portion of Article III, section 2 tells us that in the trial of all crimes, except impeachment, the accused has a right to a _______. a. An unbiased judge b. trial by jury c. Neither a or b b. trial by jury Article III defines the crime of _______, and explains the process for finding someone guilty of this crime. a. Treason b. Robbery c. Neither a or b a. Treason _______ is the only crime actually defined in the constitution. a. Murder b. Treason c. Domestic violence b. Treason Dollree Mapp was convicted of possessing obscene materials after an admittedly illegal police search of her home for a fugitive. She appealed her conviction on the basis of freedom of expression. This case precedent was the_____________. a. Both b and c

b. Rights to privacy rule c. Exclusionary rule c. Exclusionary rule In the case of Brown v. Board of Education the precedent that the civil rights case established is_____________. a. Educational matters at the state level are not heard by the Supreme Court b. Separate but equal is constitutional c. Separate but equal is NOT constitutional c. Separate but equal is NOT constitutional The case that preceded Brown v. Board of Education (1954) that established the precedent of separate but equal is constitutional is _________. a. Tinker v. Des Moines b. Mapp v. Ohio c. Plessy v. Ferquson c. Plessy v. Ferguson This case answered the question of " Does the Sixth Amendment's right to counsel in criminal cases extend to felony defendants in state court?" a. Gideon v. Wainwright b. Mapp v. Ohio c. Neither a or b a. Gideon v. Wainwright Does the police practice of interrogating individuals without notifying them of their right to counsel and their protection against self-incrimination violate of the Fifth Amendment? a. US v. Nixon b. Texas v. Johnson c. Miranda v. Arizona

c. Miranda v. Arizona In the case of ________ is about whether the President has the right to safeguard certain information, using his "executive privilege" confidentiality power, entirely immune from judicial review? a. US v. Clinton b. US v. Carter c. US v. Nixon c. US v. Nixon In the desecration of the American flag, by burning or otherwise, a form of speech that is protected under the First Amendment question came from the case. a. Texas v. Johnson b. Miranda v. Arizona c. Neither a or b a. Texas v. Johnson Today, the federal government is_____ a. nonexistent in the lives of most americans b. a small institution that enacts a small number of programs touching on very few aspects of American life. c. an enormous institution that enacts a large number of programs touching on nearly every aspect of American life. d. an enormous institution that enacts a small number of programs touching on very few aspects of American life. e. an enormous institution that is legally banned from regulating economic activities. c. an enormous institution that enacts a large number of programs touching on nearly every aspect of American life. The belief that you can influence how your government acts is called a. political efficacy

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