Section 2 - Trial by Jury, Original Jurisdiction, Jury Trials, the Court System
The
judicial branch consists of one Supreme Court, and inferior courts created by Congress. All judges hold their offices for life,
contingent on good behavior. This helps ensure the execution of justice.
(The judicial
Power shall extend to all Cases, in Law and Equity,
arising under this Constitution, the Laws of the United States, and Treaties made, or which
shall be made, under their Authority; to all Cases affecting
Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls; to all Cases of admiralty and
maritime Jurisdiction;
to Controversies to which the United States shall be a Party; to Controversies
between two or more States; between a State and Citizens of another State;
between Citizens of different States; between Citizens of the same State
claiming Lands under Grants of different States, and
between a State, or the Citizens thereof, and foreign States, Citizens or
Subjects.) (This section in parentheses is modified by the 11th Amendment.)
In all Cases affecting Ambassadors, other
public Ministers and Consuls, and those in which a State shall be Party, the
supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases
before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact,
with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the Congress shall make.
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