To summarize what I read today ...

   Three levels in the U.S.A federal courts system trial courts, appellate tribunals, and the U.S.A supreme court. The first level of courts, trial courts, is the first one to hear the federal criminal and civil cases.   

My Most Striking Quote

      As I was reading chapter two, I found these sentences as a most striking quote which starts " The first well-known legal scholar to speak out in favor of court unification was Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School. Pound and others called for the consolidation of trial courts into a single set of courts or two sets of courts, one to hear major cases and one to hear minor cases.", p48, and what was interesting about it is that Roscoe Pound made a hard decision in a critical time when no one could do so. He started, with his colleagues, to set a new form of the courts system by leading the court unification movement.     

The section that inspired me

   Through chapter one I have read many interesting things, but the most prominent one, which impressed me endlessly, was John Marshal. This person was the second person to be elected as a chief justice at US supreme court. He had done many wonderful actions that no one did before. He reject many interventions from many departments to preserve this court. Also, he strengthen the supreme court role and tried to give it a good front.