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AP Government - Judicial Branch Review - Redesigned AP Gov Exam: The Supreme Court & the Rise of Judicial Review
This video is intended as a review of the Judicial Branch and the Supreme Court for the A.P. Government & Politics Redesigned Exam or anyone interested in U.S. Government. This is more of an overview of the benchmarks, concepts, and themes with historical and recent examples. Included in this video are:
• Supreme Court’s independence & the emergence of the use of judicial review
• Article III of the Constitution: the Supreme Court, Congressional power to create lower or “inferior courts,” lifetime tenure for justices & federal judges
• Political insulation of the court: appointed positions - elite model, control of the docket or ability to chose cases,
• Federalist Essay # 78: Hamilton’s defense of the Court - “Least dangerous” lacking power of the purse & sword, need for lifetime tenure - independence from the other branches, judicial review
• Marbury v. Madison: establishment of judicial review, definition of judicial review, check on the other branches
• Legal precedents
• Judicial Activism vs. Judicial Restraint
• The Warren Court - with case examples
• The Rehnquist Court
• Judicial Restraint: Stare Decisis
• Executive & Judicial Checks on the Courts:
• Executive enforcement: evading or ignoring decisions
• Presidential appointment to of Supreme Court Justices & Federal Judges
• Congressional revision of laws found unconstitutional
• Senate confirmation of justices & judges
• State evasion of Supreme Court decisions
• Has the court become too powerful & partisan
• And more
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