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Rule of Nine: Creating the Judicial System
Article III of the U. S. Constitution provides that there shall be one Supreme Court and such inferior courts as Congress should permit. It was the Judiciary Act of 1789 and subsequent legislation that created the system of federal courts that exist...
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Legal Precedent: Constitutional Constraints on the Judiciary
Members of Congress have more latitude in their decision-making authority than justices and judges bound by the provisions of Article III of the Constitution. The court cannot issue a decision except in response to an actual case that is before it. ...