2.1: Ch 2.1Multiple Choice Questions (15)
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Courts in each of the 11 federal judicial districts of the U.S. that functions as an appellate court for the lower federal courts.
- Article Six
- Circuit Courts
- United States Courts of Appeals
- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
The governmental bodies that run a particular city, town, county, or district.
- Local Government
- Circuit Courts
- Supremacy Clause
- Marble Cake Federalism
A reference to the ability of legislative bodies to control other branches of government through the control of public money.
- Article Six
- Intermediate Court of Appeals
- Power of the Purse
- Separation of Powers
In order for the federal courts to hear an appellate case, there must be some federal legal issue involved, such as a Constitutional rights violation.
- Substantial Federal Question
- Separation of Powers
- Court of Last Resort
- United States Courts of Appeals
A metaphor for federalism where the layers of a cake signify the separate spheres in which the federal and state governments operate and have power.
- Court of Last Resort
- Layer Cake Federalism
- United States District Courts
- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
A metaphor of federalism that symbolizes the mixing of powers and resources among local, state, and federal governments.
- Marble Cake Federalism
- Intermediate Court of Appeals
- United States District Courts
- United States Courts of Appeals
A conceptualization of federalism wherein national, state, and local governments work together to solve common problems as opposed to operating separately.
- Court of Last Resort
- United States District Courts
- Cooperative Federalism
- Circuit Courts
Article VI contains the supremacy clause, which establishes the superiority of federal law over state law.
- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
- Cooperative Federalism
- Article Six
- Court of Last Resort
An appellate court positioned between the trial courts and the court of last resort in the court hierarchy.
- Layer Cake Federalism
- Substantial Federal Question
- Intermediate Court of Appeals
- Supremacy Clause
The “highest” court beyond which there is no appeal; usually refers to a Supreme Court.
- Supremacy Clause
- Article Six
- Court of Last Resort
- United States District Courts
A SCOTUS decision that adopted an expansive view of the supremacy clause.
- United States Courts of Appeals
- Power of the Purse
- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
- Supremacy Clause
The idea of vesting the legislative, judicial, and executive powers of government in separate bodies.
- Marble Cake Federalism
- Separation of Powers
- Supremacy Clause
- United States District Courts
At the federal level, the layer of appellate courts situated between the federal district (trial) courts and the Supreme Court.
- Layer Cake Federalism
- Court of Last Resort
- Separation of Powers
- Circuit Courts
Term used to denote Article VI of the U.S. Constitution.
- Article Six
- Supremacy Clause
- Layer Cake Federalism
- Substantial Federal Question
The trial courts of general jurisdiction in the federal court system.
- Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
- Supremacy Clause
- United States District Courts
- Marble Cake Federalism
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