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Chapter 14: The Courts

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz


This activity contains 22 questions.

	The Supreme Court is a national policy maker.    True  False

	The Constitution provides little information about what the judicial branch is supposed to do or how it is supposed to go about its job.    True  False

	The Constitution explicitly gives the Supreme Court the power of judicial review.    True  False

	The Supreme Court ruled in Marbury v. Madison that provisions of the Judiciary Act of 1789 were unconstitutional.    True  False

	The Marshall Court and later Courts used the power of judicial review with great restraint.    True  False

	The great bulk of laws, legal disputes, and court decisions are located in the states.    True  False

	The federal court system resembles a pyramid with federal district courts on the bottom, circuit courts of appeal in the middle, and the Supreme Court on top.    True  False

	Congress has the power to reorganize the federal court system.    True  False

	Federal courts are different from state courts in that federal courts do not use juries.    True  False

	Although judges do not slavishly follow precedent, they tend to move away from it only when necessary and only in small steps.    True  False

	Because federal judges are lawyers, they tend to come from backgrounds that are more privileged than the American norm.    True  False

	Contrary to popular opinion, presidents only consider merit when picking nominees to serve on the federal bench.    True  False

	Senatorial courtesy only applies to the selection of Supreme Court judges.    True  False

	Presidents try to nominate judges to the Supreme Court who they believe will be favorably disposed to their ideological points of view.    True  False

	Sometimes the Supreme Court does not grant a writ of certiorari in a particular case because it may involve a particularly controversial issue that the Court would like to avoid.    True  False

	Amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs have no influence on the opinion of the Court because the Court rarely pays any attention to them.    True  False

	During the first period of constitutional history, the Supreme Court emphasized the centralized nature of the federal system.    True  False

	The main constitutional provision used by the Supreme Court to protect corporations during the second period of constitutional history was the Fourteenth Amendment.    True  False

	In 1937, the Supreme Court abandoned its effort to prevent the government from playing a central role in the management of the economy and the regulation of business. By the end of the 1930s, the Supreme Court was deferring to the political branches of government on these types of issues.    True  False

	After World War II, the Supreme Court focused its attention on the relationship between the individual and government.    True  False

	The Supreme Court has exercised its power of judicial review more frequently in the twentieth century than during earlier periods of its history.    True  False

	Due to the fact that justices are appointed for life and do not need to face the electorate, the Supreme Court is immune from public opinion.    True  False

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