What role does the Supreme Court play in the lawmaking process? Although the Supreme Court may hear an appeal on any question of law provided it has jurisdiction, it usually does not hold trials. Instead, the Court's task is to interpret the meaning of a law, to decide whether a law is relevant to a particular set of facts, or to rule on how a law should be applied
Candidate Party Electoral Votes
Abraham Lincoln Republican 180
John C. Breckinridge Democratic 72
John Bell Constitutional Union 39
Stephen A. Douglas Democratic 12
The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the 1787 U.S. Constitution because they feared that the new national government would be too powerful and thus threaten individual liberties, given the absence of a bill of rights. ...