Task 6. Match the endings of the sentences

1. The judicial branch has the responsibility of …	a. and successful experience before they were appointed to the Court.
2. Under the Constitution the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction in case…	b. since their principal duty is to settle routine cases where no constitutional question is at stake.
3. The Supreme Court meets on the second Monday in October …	c. pressure resulting from accumulation of appellate cases.
4. The Supreme Court is made up of lawyers who had long …	d. judging the constitutionality of acts of law.
5. A Supreme Court Justice may have been …	e. affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls and cases in which a state is a party.
6. The Courts of Appeals were organized to relieve the Supreme Court of …	f. for a session which generally extends through to July.
7. The inferior courts in the federal system have somewhat less political importance …	g. trials are held, juries are used, and witnesses are called.
8. The district court is the only Federal court where …	h. a senator, an Attorney General, a teacher in a law school, or even the administrator of an agency that acts like a court.

Task 7. Choose the proper definition to the following words:

1. congress	a. the process of making and defending claims in a court of law, in non criminal matters;
2. litigation	b. a demand or request for something which one has a right to have;
3. authority	c. the act of returning something lost or stolen to its owner, or of paying for damage;
4. claim	d. the quality of being sensible and trustworthy;
5. ambassador	e. to give the official and legal right to possess or use power, property;
6. consul	f. the ability, power, or right to control and command;
7. circumstance	g. a Diplomat of the highest rank who is the official representative of his/her country in another country;
8. vest in	h. a person appointed by a government to protect and help its citizens and its interests in trade in a foreign country;
9. responsibility	i. the law-making body of the US country of the Senate and the House of Representatives;
10. restitution	j. the combination of facts, conditions, or events that influence one’s action, regarded as being outside one’s control.

Task 8. Match Ukrainian terms with their English equivalents:

1. to alter the Constitution	a. юрисдикція суду першої інстанції
2. circuit court of appeals	b. суд присяжних
3. the judicial branch	c. мировий суддя
4. original jurisdiction	d. змінити конституцію
5. the Supreme Court	e. окружний апеляційний суд (федеральний суд другої інстанції)
6. litigation	f. податковий суд
7. a jury trial	g. переглядати рішення суду штату
8. to review a state court decision	h. Верховний суд
9. the Tax Court	i. судова суперечка
10. the justice of the peace	j. судова гілка влади

Task 9. Translate the words from the box & complete the sentences.

Верховний суд, юрисдикція суду першої інстанції, суди нижчої інстанції, магістратські та поліцейські суди, Конгрес, апеляції

1.... in the federal system have somewhat less political importance.

2. The District Courts have... in nearly all cases.

3. According to Article III of the Constitution "the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one... ”.

4. Sometimes... passes new laws to deal with new cases.

5. In most of the states the lowest courts are....

6.... go up to the middle layer of Federal Courts - the Circuit courts of Appeals.

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