the Constitution

Bush v. Gore (2000) (full citation Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S.

A capital offense is a criminal charge that is punishable by the death penalty. It is not necessary that the actual punishment imposed was the death penalty, but rather a capital office is classified as such if the permissible punishment prescribed by the legislature for the offense is the death penalty.

A case is a civil or criminal proceeding at law or in equity.

Overview

Certiorari simply defined is a “writ” by which a higher court (such as an appellate court) reviews some lower court’s decision (such as a district court). 

• appellate jurisdiction
• Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure
• appellate practice
• Supreme Court
• certiorari

In the context of transportation; channels are the highways, waterways, and air traffic of the country.

See also: Instrumentalities

[Last reviewed in July of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]

• constitutional law

Checks and balances, also known as separation of powers, is a principle in the structure of government in the context of the United States Constitution.

• constitution
• government

The Chinese Exclusion Act, signed into law on May 6, 1882, by President Chester A. Arthur, was an act of Congress that effectively terminated Chinese immigration for ten years and prohibited the Chinese from becoming U.S. citizens.

The legal doctrine of Church and State refers to the constitutional principle of separation between government and religion in the United States.

Circuit riding is the act undertaken by judges, who would often travel between towns within a judicial district (previously known as a circuit) to hear cases in each town. Now, this practice has largely been discontinued.

[Last reviewed in July of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]