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the middle level of the federal judiciary; these courts review and hear appeals from the federal district courts U.S. Supreme Court the highest court of the United States; it sits at the top of the federal court system Remand(ed) send back to the trial court for corrective action or possi...
Preceded Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State Judicial Review The right of the judicial to strike down acts of a legislature as unconstitutional. Marbury v. Madison Marbury sues for a Writ of Mandamus Declared Section 13 of the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional because it granted original ...
1. Needs 218 to get elected, allocated by state population2. Census done every 10 years to correctly allocate seats What is reapportionment? The process of reallocating seats in the House of Representatives every 10 years on the basis of the results of the census. Who draws the lines of ...
Judiciary Committee Key Senate committee that is responsible for recommending presidential judicial appointments to the full Senate for approval. Appropriations Committee A committee of the United States House of Representatives. It is in charge of setting the specific expenditures of money by the governme...
IMPORTANT ACT- Although he dismissed the Marbury suit ( 1801) to avoid direct political showdown, he said that part of the Judiciary Act of 1789, on which Marbury tried to base his appeal was unconstitutional. Marshall greatly magnified the authority of the court. In the Marbury v. Madison ...