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| Interprets or explains the laws |
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| Carry out and enforce the laws |
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| What is the name of the highest most important court in the US? |
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| What are the titles of the mean and women who serve on the high court? |
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| How many people serve on the high court? |
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| How long do the people of the high court serve? |
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| Who appoints the justices, and who must approve them? |
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| They are appointed by the president and approved by the senate |
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| How many distict courts are there? |
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| How many appeal courts are there? |
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| Name two other courts that are part of the federal judicial system. |
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Court of Military Appeals
United States Tax Court |
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| List 9 types of cases the Supreme Court and federal courts have juisdictions over: |
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| The Constitution, Federal Laws, Treaties, Laws governing ships, Ambassadors of Public Ministers, the US government itself, 2 or more state governments, citizens of different states, a state or its citizen vs a foreign country and its citizen. |
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| The cses that the federal and Supreme Court may hear. |
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| the Supreme Court can only har a case after it's gone through the court system first |
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| A formal request to the Supreme Court to hear a case. |
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| The law goes against the Constitution of the US |
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| carrying on war against the US and/or giving help to the nations enemies |
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| The process of checking the laws of our land |
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| What does it mean when the Supreme Court declares a law "unconstitutional"? |
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| The law goes against the Constitution of the US |
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| Give an example of an act of treason. |
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| Giving firearms to a country that we are at war with. |
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| What must happen in court for a person to be convicted of treason? |
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| 2 witnesses must testify to the same story and/or the accussed must make a confession in a courtroom. |
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| What do you suppose would happen if the concept of treason didn't exist? |
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| each state will always have a government elected by the people and not a monarchy |
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| What issue does Article IV address? |
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| Waht must the state of Orgon do about the laws of Idaho? |
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| Oregan must respect the laws and decisions of Idaho |
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| Who is given the power to admit new states? |
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| Could Rhode Island, Vermont, and New Hampshire join together to form a new state? How? |
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| They can only join together if all of the states legislatures and Congress approve of it. |
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| What is a republican form of government? |
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| Each state will always have a government elected by the people |
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| Under the Articles of Confederation, how could the relationship between the states be discribed? |
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| The states had a loose friendship. It was like having 13 different countries with a mediocre friendship. |
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| Under the Constitution, how could the new relationship between the states be described? |
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| All states are supposed to work together and respect each other. |
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| What issue does Article V address? |
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| It provides a way for the Constitution to be changed. |
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| What 2 ways can an ammendment be proposed? |
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2/3 of both houses of Congress must agree
2/3 of the state legislatures call a constitutional convention |
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| What 2 ways can an amendment be ratified? |
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3/4 of the legislatures in the state must approve
3/4 fo the states must have individual constitutional conventions to ratify the the amendment |
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| What fraction must propose an amendment? |
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| What fraction must ratify an amendmetn? |
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| Why did the framers include Article VI in the Constitution? |
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| This article confirms the authority of the Constitution |
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| Is it possible for the city of Chicago to make a treaty with teh country of Germany? Why or why not? |
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| No because the Constitution is above all other laws. |
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| How many states needed to ratify the Constitution before it could go into effect? |
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| When was the Constitution signed? |
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| How many years agter the Declaration of Independence was the Constitution written? |
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| What document governed the US before and during the writing of the Constitution? |
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| The Articles of Confederation |
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| List 4 signers of the Constitution whose names you recognize: |
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George Washington
James Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Jonathan Dayton |
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| Do you agree that the US Constitution is the 'supreme law of the land'? Why or why not? Defend your answer. |
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