The Supreme Court ruled that criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed his/her constitutional right to an attorney.
There haven't always been nine justices on the court. The U.S. Constitution established the Supreme Court but left it to Congress to decide how many justices should make up the court. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set the number at six: a chief justice and five associate justices.
<span>The process of granting a write of certiorari in the court is to bring a case from a lower court to the supreme court to be heard.</span>
The committees of correspondence were associations of people that formed in several populated areas among the thirteen colonies during 1773. These groups were in charge of disseminating anti-British propaganda in their locations. They played a key role due to the fact they grew to such extent that they would later unify into one single entity during the Revolutionary War.
