ISS 225 Study Guide - Indictment
30 Oct 2014
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The article requires that there be one court called the supreme court; congress, at its discretion, can create lower courts, whose judgments and orders are reviewable by the supreme court. Article three also requires trial by jury in all criminal cases, defines the crime of treason, and charges congress with providing for a punishment for it. It also sets the kinds of cases that may be heard by the federal judiciary, which cases the supreme court may hear first (called original jurisdiction), and that all other cases heard by the supreme court are by appeal. Right of the supreme court to decided the constitutionality of acts of congress and state laws. What is the rule of four? : four of the nine justices must agree to hear the case. : to be certified -higher court orders lower court to send up record of the case.
