1. What is the only crime defined in the Constitution? 2. Who determines how many federal Courts the U. S. will have?

3. How many people must witness an act of treason before a person can be convicted of it?

4. How long do federal judges hold their jobs?

5. If the President does not like a court’s decision, can he punish the justices by lowering their salary?

6. Do courts have the authority to deal with issues involving laws that come in conflict with the Constitution?

7. Who determines the punishment for someone found guilty of treason?

8. If Georgia and Florida had a boundary dispute, would a state or federal court solve the problem?

9. Which type of case is the only one in which a jury is not an option?

10. What type of official does the federal court have original jurisdiction over?

A. Article III Section 1: “ The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court and in such inferior Courts As the Congress may from time to time allow.”

B. Article III Section 1: The Judges, both of the Supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their office during good Behavior.

C. Article III Section 1: “and shall at stated times receive for their services a

Compensation, which shall not be

diminished during their continuance in

office.”

D. Article III Section 2.1: The judicial Powers shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and Treaties made, shall be made, under their Authority.”

E. Article III Section 2: “The judicial Powers shall extend to all Cases... to controversies between two or more states...”

F. Article III Section 2.2: “In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other public Ministers... and those in which a State shall be Party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.”

G. Article III Section 2.3: “The Trial of all Crimes, except in cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury, and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed;...”

H. Article III Section 3.1:”Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”

I. Article III Section 3.1: “No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on confession in open Court.”

J. Article III Section 3.2: “The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood...”

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