| A | B |
|---|
| US judiciary | parallel systems of state & federal courts |
| Constitution | Court's source of power |
| Marbury v Madison | power of judicial review |
| McCulloch v Maryland | federal gov't "supreme in its sphere of action" |
| Gibbons v Ogden | broadened definition of interstate commerce |
| Dred Scott v Sandford | African Americans not citizens |
| Plessy v Ferguson | "separate but equal" |
| Brown v Board of Education | outlawed segregation in public schools |
| constitutional courts | courts authorized by Article III of constitution |
| legislative courts | established by Congress special purposes |
| Federal District Court | hears federal cases, federal law, or between states |
| Territorial Courts | district court for Virgin Islands, Guam, etc |
| Supreme Court Jurisdiction | foreign representatives, state, federal law |
| duty of supreme court | which case to hear, deciding case, write opinion |
