How Are the Initial Attitudes of the Group Likely to Affect

question 108

Essay

How are the initial attitudes of the group likely to affect group decision making?

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Definitions:

Rule of Four

A Supreme Court of the United States practice that permits four of the nine justices to grant a writ of certiorari, deciding that the Court will review a lower court's decision.

Court-Packing Plan

A controversial strategy to increase the number of justices on the U.S. Supreme Court, typically to change its ideological balance.

Marbury v. Madison

A landmark Supreme Court case in 1803 that established the principle of judicial review in the United States, allowing courts to overturn laws deemed unconstitutional.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

An 1857 Supreme Court case that ruled African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and thereby had no standing to sue in federal court.