<P> Unlike the situation with the states , there is no plenary reception statute at the federal level that continued the common law and thereby granted federal courts the power to formulate legal precedent like their English predecessors . Federal courts are solely creatures of the federal Constitution and the federal Judiciary Acts . However , it is universally accepted that the Founding Fathers of the United States , by vesting `` judicial power '' into the Supreme Court and the inferior federal courts in Article Three of the United States Constitution , thereby vested in them the implied judicial power of common law courts to formulate persuasive precedent ; this power was widely accepted , understood , and recognized by the Founding Fathers at the time the Constitution was ratified . Several legal scholars have argued that the federal judicial power to decide `` cases or controversies '' necessarily includes the power to decide the precedential effect of those cases and controversies . </P>
<P> Unlike the situation with the states , there is no plenary reception statute at the federal level that continued the common law and thereby granted federal courts the power to formulate legal precedent like their English predecessors . Federal courts are solely creatures of the federal Constitution and the federal Judiciary Acts . However , it is universally accepted that the Founding Fathers of the United States , by vesting `` judicial power '' into the Supreme Court and the inferior federal courts in Article Three of the United States Constitution , thereby vested in them the implied judicial power of common law courts to formulate persuasive precedent ; this power was widely accepted , understood , and recognized by the Founding Fathers at the time the Constitution was ratified . Several legal scholars have argued that the federal judicial power to decide `` cases or controversies '' necessarily includes the power to decide the precedential effect of those cases and controversies . </P>
one of the purposes of the us judicial system is to -- -- --
one of the purposes of the us judicial system is to -- -- --
decide `` cases or controversies ''
decide `` cases or controversies ''