US Judicial System and Constitutional Law

Running head: Constitutional Law
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
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Constitutional Law1
The US Judicial system is federal in nature with federal central government with each of
the 50 states has individual government. Like every other branch of government, every state has
its own judicial system called the state courts, in the similar way the United States also have
courts known as the federal courts (Gluck & Posner 2017).
Every justice system has many original jurisdiction courts where the cases are filed
originally and tried. The trial courts’ jurisdiction can be either based on subject matter or on
location. Every judicial system also possesses few intermediate courts of appeals. Such courts
are entrusted with hearing the appeals coming from trial courts. The appeal coming from a court
decision refers to a claim made by a defeated party that is made by the lower court by mistake of
law. Every court system possesses a Supreme Court that has the responsibility to hear appeals
made in appellate courts (Pacelle, 2018).
The US judicial system is partly inherited from the English common law and is
dependent on an adversarial system of justice (Neef & Nagel, 2017)). In such system, the
litigants present their matters before a party who is neutral to the case. The arguments given by
litigant are used by the judge or jury for determining the truth regarding the conflict.
Apart from presenting oral or written arguments, testimony and evidence are also
collected by litigants and their lawyers and presented to the court. Federal courts can hear
disputes between different states (Scalia, 2018). Prior to the Constitution adoption, when there
were controversies among the states mainly regarding the borders and the need was there for
Supreme Court to hear such cases with disputes. Federal courts can also hear cases where United
States is also a party for protecting the interest of United States from the effect of biasness of the
state courts.