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Word Problems

1. If the average of the court ages were 68 the oldest one was 85 and the youngest was 50 and the middle age is 69 what are the ages of the other 5 people?
2. Use this graph of the people in the U.S. Supreme Court to answer the following question:

   What is the age of Sandra Day O’Connor if she was born in 3/26/1930?

   Names	Year of Birth	Ages
   John Roberts	1/27/55	50
   Clarence Thomas	6/23/48	57
   David Souter	9/17/39	66
   Stephen Breyer	8/15/38	67
   Anthony Kennedy	7/23/36	69
   Antonin Scalia	3/11/36	69
   Ruth Bader Ginsburg	3/15/33	72
   Sandra Day O'Connor	3/26/30
   John Paul Stevens	4/19/20	85

     3.   If I am 5 ft 9 inches and the Supreme Court Monument is 4 inches higher then me then how high is the
          Supreme Court Monument?

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Scavenger  Hunt

1.  The Court has ____ Associate Justices how many Associate Justices does the court have?

2. Who nominates these Justices?

3. How many Justices does the court have?

4.  The Supreme Court is the only court established by who?

5.  Who confirms the nominations after the President nominates the justices?

Answers to Scavenger  Hunt

1. John Roberts is 51 years old.

2. Samuel Alito was elected by Clinton.

3. Stephen Breyer’s home state is Massachusetts.

4. John Roberts is a Associate Justice.

5. John Paul Stevens is Chief Justice.

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the United States of America. As such, the court provides the leadership of the Judicial Branch of the Federal Government.
            The court consists of the Chief justice of the United States and eight Associate Justices, who are nominated by the President and confirmed with the “advice and consent” of the Senate. Appointed to serve for life, they can only be removed by Congress through the impeachment process, although they may resign. No justice has ever been removed from office, though many have retired or resigned.
            The Supreme Court occupied various spaces in the United States Capitol until 1935, when it moved into its own purpose-built home at One First Street Northeast, Washington, D.C. The four-story building was designed in a classical style to the surrounding buildings of the Capitol complex and the Library of Congress by architect Cass Gilbert, and is clad in marble chiefly in Vermont.
            The building includes space for the Courtroom, Justices chambers, a law library, various meeting spaces, and auxiliary services such as workshop, stores, cafeteria and a gymnasium. The Supreme Court building is within the ambit of the Architect of the Capitol, but maintains its own police force, separate from the Capitol Police.
            That changed forever during the Marshall Court (1801-1835), which declared the Court to be the supreme arbiter of the constitution, and made a number of important rulings which gave shape and substance to the Constitutional balance of power between the Federal government and states.
            In the years following the Civil War the Chase, Waite, and Fuller courts (1864-1910) began to interpret the new civil war amendments to the Constitution, and developed the doctrine of due process under the White and Taft courts (1910-1930), the substantive due process Court held that the 14th Amendment applied the Bill of Rights to the states.
            When Congress moved to the new capitol city of Washington in November of 1800, only the north wing of the Capitol Building had been completed. Here the Senate met in a two-story room on the ground floor, now the site of the Old Supreme Court Chamber. Architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe later redesigned and rebuilt the space and created a new Senate chamber on the second floor, modeled after the amphitheaters of antiquity. The Senate moved into this chamber in February of 1810, but the setting was short lived. On August 24, 1814, the British marched on Washington and set fire to the Capitol, leaving the exterior scarred and blackened, the interior gutted, and the Senate chamber destroyed.
            Congress met in temporary quarters across the street as work proceeded in rebuilding the Capitol. Latrobe enlarged his original design for the Senate chamber and, following his resignation, architect Charles Bullfinch completed the work by December of 1819.
            The United States Congress first convened in the federal governments move from Philadelphia to the District of Columbia. Although President Washington laid the Capitol’s cornerstone in 1793, construction had proceeded slowly. When Congress arrived, only the north, or Senate, Wing  was ready for occupancy. Described as a “ponderous unfinished mass of brick and stone”, it was surrounded by half a dozen brick homes with farm animals roaming the streets near by, thirty-two senators, 106 representatives, the Supreme Court of the United States, the district courts, and the Library of Congress all shared tight quarters in this small, rectangular, sandstone building.

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Answer to Math Word Problem.

1. 57, 66, 67, 72, and 75
2. 75
3. 6ft

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Answers to Scavenger Hunt

1. 8

2. The President

3. 9

4. The United States Constitution

5. The Senate

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1. True
2. False, George W. Bush
3. True
4. False, Chief Justice
5. False, Associate Justice

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Citation

"Supreme Court of the United States." Wikipedia. 10 Feb. 2006. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 10 Feb. 2006 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_Supreme_Court>.

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