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date: 18 February 2025

Supreme Court, U.S. 

Source:
The Oxford Companion to United States History
Author(s):
Melvin I. UrofskyMelvin I. Urofsky, Paul S. BoyerPaul S. Boyer

Article III of the Constitution provides that “the judicial Power of the United States, shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.” The First Congress created a Supreme Court and lower tribunals in the Judiciary Act of ... ...

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