Your Text Defines Judicial Review as

question 138

Multiple Choice

Your text defines judicial review as

• A)the view that a court of law is a neutral arena in which two parties argue their differences and present their points of view before an impartial arbiter.
• B)the power of a court to refuse to enforce a law.
• C)the authority of a court to review decisions made by lower courts.
• D)a dispute growing out of an actual case or controversy that is capable of settlement by legal methods.
• E)the authority of a court to hear a case "in the first instance."

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Definitions:

1964 Civil Rights Act

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