

The act also divided the country into judicial districts, which were in turn organized into circuits. The Supreme Court, the country's highest judicial tribunal, was to sit in the nation's Capital and would initially be composed of a chief justice and five associate justices. The 1st United States Congress provided the detailed organization of a federal judiciary through the Judiciary Act of 1789. The Royal Exchange, New York City, the first meeting place of the Supreme Court In the end, the framers compromised by sketching only a general outline of the judiciary, vesting federal judicial power in "one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish." They delineated neither the exact powers and prerogatives of the Supreme Court nor the organization of the judicial branch as a whole. It was also proposed that the judiciary should have a role in checking the executive's power to veto or revise laws. Early on, the delegates who were opposed to having a strong central government argued that national laws could be enforced by state courts, while others, including James Madison, advocated for a national judicial authority consisting of various tribunals chosen by the national legislature. Creating a "third branch" of government was a novel idea in the English tradition, judicial matters had been treated as an aspect of royal (executive) authority. It was while debating the separation of powers between the legislative and executive departments that delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention established the parameters for the national judiciary. The Court lacked its own building until 1935 from 1791 to 1801, it met in Philadelphia's City Hall. 10.1 Selected landmark Supreme Court decisions.


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