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Definition of Supreme Court

1. Noun. The highest federal court in the United States; has final appellate jurisdiction and has jurisdiction over all other courts in the nation.

Definition of Supreme Court

1. Proper noun. The highest court in a legal jurisdiction. ¹

2. Noun. A court of law which represents the highest legal authority within a jurisdiction. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

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Literary usage of Supreme Court

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William L. Hickey, United States (1847)
"MARSHALS OF THE UNITED STATES ATTENDANT ON THE Supreme Court OF THE UNITED STATES. Under the construction of the judiciary act of 1789, the Marshals of all ..."

2. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1853)
"MARSHALS OF THE UNITED STATES ATTENDANT ON THE Supreme Court OF THE UNITED STATES. Under the construction of the judiciary act of 1789, the Marshals of all ..."

3. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"MARSHALS OE THE UNITED STATES ATTENDANT ON THE Supreme Court OÏ THE UNITED STATES. Under the construction of the judiciary act of 1789, the Marshals of all ..."

4. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1900)
"HIGH RANK OF THE Supreme Court AMONGST THE GREAT POWERS OF STATE No nation ever constituted so great a judicial power as the Americans —Extent of its ..."

5. The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States, Being by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, James Madison (1901)
"I answer, that an appeal would certainly lie from the latter, to the Supreme Court of the United States. The Constitution in direct terms gives an appellate ..."

6. The Federalist, on the New Constitution by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1857)
"... motives to the multiplication of federal courts, and would admit of arrangements calculated in contract the appellate jurisdiction of the supreme court. ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"In case the Supreme Court of the United States finds that a constitutional right has been violated, it orders a new trial of the prisoner. ..."

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