Supreme Court Research Paper

What is a Court A court is a place where trials and legal cases happen, or the people who are present in such a place, especially those officials and those deciding if someone is guilty of committing a crime.

Courts in the U.S.
The courts of the United States are very closely related to the hierarchical systems of courts at the federal levels and state levels. The federal courts are the ones that make up the judicial branch of the Federal government and operate under the strict authority of the United States Constitution and federal law. The state and territorial courts of the individual U.S. states and territories operate under the authority of the state and territorial constitutions and state and territorial law.

Court Structure and Role …show more content…
Article III authorizes and sanctions the establishment of one Supreme Court, however it does not set the number of justices that has to be appointed to it. A chief judge will preside over the impeachment of a President. The number of justices to be appointed has been fixed by statute. At present there are nine justices, one chief justice and eight associate justices, on the Supreme Court. Proposals to break the Supreme Court into separate panels have been made, however all have failed. Since all the proposals have failed, the Supreme Court has never ruled on the constitutionality of such a division. However, the Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes wrote, "the Constitution does not appear to authorize two or more Supreme Courts functioning in effect as separate courts." Congress has created two kinds of lower federal courts to handle cases that need not be decided by the Supreme Court which are the constitutional and legislative courts. The Constitutional Court is the court that is both independent and autonomous state authority. This court is the most powerful body of the judiciary it comes to the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms and a primary guardian of both constitutionality and legality. Legislative courts were created by Congress in pursuance of its general legislative powers, have comprised a significant part of the federal judiciary. This court has been staffed with judges who do not enjoy the protection of Article III of the Constitution. Legislative courts include the Court of Military Appeals and the territorial

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