Exam 8: The History and Organization of Courts

Trial by compurgation was a formalized type of blood feud.

Which is not one of the four levels of the federal courts?

This case set forth that the military commission as authorized after September 11, 2001, is insufficient to try terrorist suspects under the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Geneva Conventions.

A superior court uses this order to call up for review the record of a case from a lower court.

The jury trial developed because the medieval Roman Catholic Church forbade priests to participate in trials by ordeal.

This court holds sessions at intervals within different areas of a judicial district.

This case established that the court could find that the Constitution included implied powers that could be deduced from its nature and language.

The U.S. criminal court system is a(n) process.

According to this case, under the Sixth Amendment, defendants charged with serious offenses are entitled to a jury trial.

This is the only right or protection in the Bill of Rights that is also included in all of the state constitutions.

The political boundaries of cities, counties, and states can determine the subject-matter jurisdiction of a court.

The court system of the United States is divided into two entities: and .

This is the first case in which the U.S. Supreme Court applied the constitutional right to counsel to a specific prosecution.

There was only one type of trial by ordeal: trial by fire (or hot iron).

List three types of courts that can be found within the federal court system.

The Court of the Star Chamber was important because it demonstrated how a court could be supremely fair and humane.

This is the lowest level of the federal court system.

List two of the four types of issues heard by federal courts.

This fifteenth-century English court was established to deal with offenses such as riots, perjury, and conspiracy.

The U.S. Supreme Court hears fewer than 100 cases a year.