Monday 12/2 & Tuesday 12/3: 2.8 Judicial Branch

Lesson 2.8: The Judicial Branch

Enduring Understanding:

The design of the judicial branch protects the Supreme Court’s independence as a branch of government, and the emergence and use of judicial review remains a powerful judicial practice.

Learning Objectives:

Explain the principle of judicial review and how it checks the power of other institutions and state governments.

Essential Knowledge:

The foundation for powers of the judicial branch and how its independence checks the power of other institutions and state governments are set forth in: 

• Article III of the Constitution
• Federalist No. 78 
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)

Debrief 2.11:

How many of the justices in the picture below can you name?

How many were you able to name?  1 maybe?  How do you think the founding fathers would have felt about our performance?  Would they be happy, or upset?

Activity #1 Judicial Branch One Pager

In order to create a divider in your notebooks between the Judicial Branch (The Courts) we are going to create a one pager.  The one pager should include the following...

• A title and subtitle across the middle
• A border that includes the powers of the Judicial Branch
• A picture in one quadrant
• Judicial checks on the other branches in the next quadrant
• A Diagram of the Structure of the Federal Courts
• 3 questions about the president in the last quadrant