McCulloch v. Maryland
The Constitution established only one federal court, the Supreme Court. It left to Congress the job of creating the federal court system. Congress has created two types of federal courts, District and Courts of Appeals . It has also enacted laws dealing with the size and function of the Supreme Court.
By acts of Congress.
The Supreme Court was established in September 1789.
Gideon v. Wainwright
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Because the constitution established only the supreme counrt
See the Judiciary Act of 1789. Not only did it establish the three tiered structure of the federal court system, but established the supreme court as well. It left the details of lower courts to Congress.
Congress first established the federal court system in the Judiciary Act of 1789. This act created the US Supreme Court, and a small number of District and Circuit Courts. Although Article III of the Constitution mandated a US Supreme Court, it was actually established by the 1789 legislation.
The Supreme Court of the United States was created in 1789. Most of the cases the court hears come from lower courts. Each year, the Supreme Court receives 7,000 or more requests to hear cases from lower courts.
It is Article III of the United States Constitution that established a Supreme Court to head the judicial branch. It also provides the national government the power to create lower federal courts.
The Supreme Court of the United States (aka US Supreme Court), which was established by the first Act (Judiciary Act of 1789) of the First Congress on September 24, 1789.
It established the authority of the federal government over that of the states.