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What Does The Judicial Branch Do
What does the judicial branch do?
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Content: Since the Supreme Court is the highest court in the land, its decisions can determine how lower courts throughout the nation apply the law. Download PDF
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The Constitution of the United States divides the government into three branches, the Executive (the President), the Legislative (Congress), and the Judicial. Of these three, the first two are elected and the third appointed. Unlike the other two branches, the Judicial one is intended to be technocratic, in the sense of containing experts in law, rather than merely popular and politically influenced. The purpose of the Judicial branch is to fulfill the mandate of the Constitution to the effect that every person has a right to a trial by jury in front of a competent judge. The Judicial Branch is comprised of the Supreme Court, United States district courts, and United States courts of appeals.