article 3-7 vocab
Terms
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- privileges
- special advantage, benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual
- overt act
- open; public act
- appellate court
- court review cases and appeals from state trial courts
- propose
- to offer or suggest for consideration, acceptance, or action
- immunities
- freedom of the law
- domestic
- related to home, or place of birth
- amendment
- change in, or addiction to, a written constitution/document
- judicial power
- powers of the court
- republic
- nation that has such a political order
- extradition
- the surrender of an allege fugitive from justice or criminal by one state
- jurisdiction
- the subjects and geographic areas over which government has authority to make decisions and take actions
- ratify
- to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction
- original jurisdiction
- which includes cases which have not previously been heard in other courts
- supreme
- highest quality, degree, character, importance
- inferior
- lower in station, rank, degree, or rank
- treason
- a crime against the country by a citizen. inclues waging war or trying to overthrow the government
- appellate jurisdiction
- start lower court, gets appealed, to to supreme court
- relations
- the various connection between peoples, countries, etc