Founding era and idea of America

 

The supreme court, or also known as SCOTUS, is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United states. The Supreme Court has all and ultimate jurisdiction over U.S federal court cases and state cases that involve anything to do with the U.S Constitution or federal law. After reading this very informative article about the supreme court system, I can confidently say that I have learned many new things, and have a better grasp of what the Supreme Court actually is, and what they stand for. Something new that I learned from this article was that the number of Justices on the Supreme Court had previously been higher and lower than 9 members. This was interesting to me because growing up in school, we were always taught that there were only and always nine members. The most surprising thing I learned from this article was how for over 100 years, justices were required to get together and hold a circuit court twice a year in each judicial circuit. Traveling during these times was very dangerous, and difficult to get all of these people together in the same place at the same time without difficulties. This went on for a very long time, but was finally abolished in 1891. The most important takeaway from this article is what the true duty of the Supreme Court really is. Their duty is to uphold the constitution, and preside over cases to determine the constitutionality of laws created in congress. They check the constitutionality of the executive and legislative branches as well as having the final authority to determine constitutionality of all other branches as well. I really feel that this article changed the way I view the Supreme Court through how it made a clear point on how they are totally and completely unbiased. Their true primary role is to uphold the rules of the constitution as their singular and very important job. I had previously thought that they might have had slight biases towards certain things, but their only and true intention is to follow the rules and laws of their previous founding fathers.