Supreme Court
The Supreme Court As a democracy we have a system, that seems to work, most of the time, We have three branches that keep are government in check. Keep it running smoothly. The Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial. The Supreme court is what makes up the judicial branch. There are nine supreme court judges. There are three types of cases that the supreme court reside over. Cases between states, or states and the federal government, any case that involves ambassadors, and they reside over any case that has to do with the constitution. The nine judges in the supreme court are: Justice Clarence Thomas, he has served since October 15th 1991; Justice Antonin Scalia, he has served since September 17th 1986; Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. He has served since September 29th 2005; Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, he has served since February 3rd 1988; Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she has served since August 10th 1993; Justice Sonia Sotomayor, she has served since August 8th 2009; Justice Stephen G. Breyer, he has served since August 3rd 1994; Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. he served since January 31st 2006; Justice Elena Kagan, she has served since August 7th 2010. The Constitution of the United States is a carefully balanced document. It is designed to provide for a national government sufficiently strong and flexible to meet the needs of the republic, yet sufficiently limited and just to protect the guaranteed rights of citizens; it permits a balance between society's need for order and the individual's right to freedom. To assure these ends, the Framers of the Constitution created three independent and coequal branches of government. That this Constitution has provided continuous democratic government through the periodic stresses of more than two centuries illustrates the genius of the American system of government. Two cases that I chose for my exapmles are "In 2013 United States v. Windsor, the Supreme Court ruled that the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act