Describe the court system in the us

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Answer the following questions below:

Part 1

Who was tasked with creating our court system?
What did the Judiciary Act of 1789 do?
Describe the court system in the US.
What is the difference between original and appellate jurisdiction?
How many federal district courts are there? What kind of jurisdiction do they have?
How many federal appellate (circuit) courts are there? What kind of jurisdiction do they have? What circuit is Michigan in?
Describe the selection process for a federal judge.
Who do presidents tend to pick for federal judgeships?
What court is the final interpreter of the constitution?
What is stare decisis?
Describe the structure of the Supreme Court.
Briefly describe the Supreme Court in the early days.
What changed to make the Supreme Court more powerful?
Define judicial review. What is the point of it?
Why didn't parliamentary systems have judicial review?
Is judicial review mentioned specifically in the constitution?
How did the court come to exercise the power of judicial review? Are they always willing to exercise it? What limits the court's power of judicial review in the US?

Part 2

Define the Federal bureaucracy
What are the two big changes the bureaucracy has experienced over time?
What are two important periods of bureaucratic growth?
Describe the spoils system. How is this different then a merit-based system?
What event triggered Congress to get rid of the spoils system? What law did they pass to do so?
Name, define, describe and provide an example of each of the four types of bureaucratic agencies.
What is rulemaking? What are the two types of rulemaking and how are they different?

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