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Describe the evolution of the court systems in the United States.

In the United States, working in parallel, uniform federal system of courts and the courts have the independence of each of the fifty states of the country, four federal territories and the District of Columbia. The federal court system consists of the U.S. Supreme Court, appellate and district courts, and it includes special courts. At the head, of the entire system of federal courts is the U.S. Supreme Court, who is both extremely important position in the overall structure of the supreme bodies of state power, along with the President and U.S. Congress (Cushman, Clare, 2001). Appellate courts are one of the main parts, which was developed and made part of the judicial system in the U.S., in the year 1891. They represent intermediate courts of jurisdiction between district courts and U.S. Supreme Court. District courts are the main link to the great power mechanisms, called the U.S. judicial system. The entire territory of the United States is divided into separate districts, taking into account the boundary lines of each state. Due to this, each district also had a district court, as well (Cushman, Clare, 2001).

Compare and contrast the U.S. courts system to those of other countries. In what ways are they similar? In what ways are they different?

Anyone familiar with the continental legal system of civil law is familiar to some extent, it is amazing how important role the U.S. presidential election campaign in future vacant posts for judges in the Supreme Court. Unlike continental Europe, judges in the U.S. public figures. Her political background, their judgments and verdicts, are regularly the subject of newspaper articles. The main difference between the German and the American system is, in my opinion in the legal understanding and the resulting type of adjudication. The attempt to force Germany Roman legal system, establish general rules and each case considered being subsumed less than one of these a priori rules formulated (Urofsky, Melvin, et al, 2001).

Unlike in the United States applicable case law: in the center of the case is treated as such. The courts try to use the verdict to the peculiarities of this particular case to meet. As a point, of orientation for the verdict handed down judgments are already used, for which the underlying cases have clear parallels to the current case. In the wake of the verdict ...