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Article III: The Judicial Branch
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on November 24, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
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Article III of the Constitution gives us the             
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actually it only gives us the                Court
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that there are            federal courts at all depends on Congress
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Supreme Court
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decides cases, but not just any case
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cases that you cannot leave to            courts
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where we need to have one interpretation for the whole               , not for only one state
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when you can't trust a state court to be                   , e.g. when one state sues another state
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makes sure that federal law means the same thing in different parts of the               
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resolve disagreements of state courts about the meaning of federal law and the Constitution
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it            for cases to come to it
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it can't reach out and make a decision on a case on its own initiative
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courts are               , not active
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in this sense it is weaker than Congress or the                    who can initiate actions on their own
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in some ways they are                 
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it has the power to strike down a       
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it has the power to order the President not to do something, "You think you can seize the            mills, Harry Truman? We disagree, give them back."
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has the last word on the meaning of the Constitution
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but will they             ?
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Congress can take away spending from programs they don't like
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the President has the        and the army and can use force to get his way
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in the early days the Supreme Court was not as                    as it is now
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didn't meet in current                  building, built in the 1930s, but met in the basement of the Capitol
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decisions were not always respected
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1831: dispute between                  nation and Georgia
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court said land belongs to               
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Georgia ignored it and the Supreme Court was                    to stop it
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1953: Supreme Court ordered states to                        their schools
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101 Southern members of Congress signed a                    denouncing the decision
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Southern governors vowed to resist
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1957: Orval              called in the Arkansas National Guard to stop African American students from attending Little Rock Central High School
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Federal district court in Arkansas ordered the National Guard to stand down and they did
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but the police who replaced them were unable to control the             
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President Eisenhower sent in the 101st                 
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an example of: if force is required, it has to come from either Congress or the President, not the Supreme Court, who only makes the             
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this is the                      between the Cherokee case and the Little Rock case
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Cooper v.            settled this dispute, ruling that "the states were bound by the Supreme Court's decisions and had to enforce them even if the states disagreed with them"
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the reason we          the Supreme Court is not because they always make good decisions
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it's because we feel that these decisions are                        of states' interests
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Constitutions goes to great lengths to make sure that decision of Supreme Court is neutral
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judges hold their offices for         
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the                        judiciary is probably the most important aspect of the government now in terms of the separation of powers, especially because of the party system
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one party can take over the Presidency and Congress pretty               
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Supreme Court is harder to               
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political party has to control the                      for a long time to control the court to provide new judges
Why We Needed a Constitution
Creating the Constitution
Structural, Backward-Looking, and Forward-Looking Provisions
Article I: The Legislative Branch
Article II: The Executive Branch
Article III: The Judicial Branch
The Bill of Rights
The Progressive Amendments: 16, 17, 18, and 19
Freedom of Speech
The Supreme Court and the Free Exercise of Religion Clause
The Establishment Clause
The Fourth Amendment: Protection from Unreasonable Search and Seizure
The Fifth Amendment and the Miranda Warning
The Sixth Amendment