AP Government - Chapter 14 Vocabulary
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| Judicial Review | show 🗑
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| Strict-Constructionist approach | show 🗑
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| show | The view that judges should discern the general principles underlying the constitution and its often vague language and assess how best to apply them in contemporary circumstances, in some cases with the guidance of moral or economic philosophy.
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| show | A federal court exercising the judicial powers found in Article III of the Constitution and whose judges are given constitutional protection.
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| show | The lowerst federal courts where federal cases begin. They are the only federal courts where trials are held. There are 94 in the entire US and its territories.
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| Courts of Appeals | show 🗑
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| show | A court that is created by Congress for some specialized pupose and staffed with judges who do not enjoy the protection of Article III of the Constitution.
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| show | Cases concerning the constitution, federal law, or treaties over which the federal courts have jurisdiction as described in the Constitution.
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| show | Cases involving citizens of different states over which the federal courts have jurisdiction as described by the constituion.
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| show | The body of rules defining relationships among private citizens. IT consists of both statutes and accumulated customary law embodied in judicial decisions. (The "Common Law")
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| show | The body of rules defining offenses that, though they harm an individual, are considered to be offenses against society as a whole and as a consequence warrant punishment by and in the name of society.
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| Writ of certiorari | show 🗑
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| In Forma Pauperis | show 🗑
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| Plaintiff | show 🗑
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| show | A legal concept establishing who is entitled to bring a lawsuit to court. For example, an individual must ordinarily show personal harm in order to acquire standing and be heard in court.
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| show | A doctrine that a citizen cannot sue the government without its consent. By statute, congress has given its consent for the government to be sued in many cases involving a dispute over a contract or damage done as a result of negligence.
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| show | A case brought into court by a person on behalf of not only himself or herself, but all other persons in the country under similar circumstances.
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| show | A legal document prepared by an attorney representing a party before a court. The document sets forth the facts of the case, summarizes the law, gives the arguments for its side, and discusses other relevant cases.
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| Amicus Curiae | show 🗑
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| Per Curiam Opinion | show 🗑
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| Opinion of the COurt | show 🗑
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| show | A supreme court opinion by one or more justices in the minority to explain the minority's dissagreement with the court's ruling.
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| Concurring opinion | show 🗑
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