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Chapter 16: The Courts

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This activity contains 15 questions.

	Any American citizen can challenge the constitutionality of a law.    True  False

	Candidates for nomination to the Supreme Court actively pursue the position.    True  False

	Due to the neutral nature of the judiciary, partisanship has little influence on the selection of judges and justices.    True  False

	Federal judges are restricted by the Constitution to deciding actual disputes rather than hypothetical ones.    True  False

	From 1938 to the present the Supreme Court has enlarged the scope of personal freedom and civil rights.    True  False

	Judges serving on the federal district and circuit courts are generally a representative sample of American people.    True  False

	Judges typically attempt, whenever possible, to avoid deciding a case on the basis of the Constitution.    True  False

	Judicial activism is associated with liberal justices.    True  False

	Judicial decisions are more likely to be smoothly implemented if implementation is concentrated in the hands of a few highly visible officials.    True  False

	Media coverage of the Supreme Court remains short and shallow.    True  False

	Most criminal cases in the United States are heard in the federal courts.    True  False

	The majority of cases heard by the Supreme Court come from the lower federal courts.    True  False

	The most common way for the Court to put a case on its docket is by issuing to a lower federal or state court a writ of certiorari.    True  False

	The president usually has more influence in the selection of judges to the federal courts of appeal than to federal district courts.    True  False

	The Supreme Court's practice of writing an opinion is largely a formality, putting an end to the case.    True  False

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