Welcome to Ripley, MS. Ripley is a small town with big vision, with a population over 5,000 residents nestled in the southern area of the Appalachian foothills in northern Mississippi. Located along Highway 15 in Tippah County, it is about thirty miles from the birthplace of Elvis Presley. and sixty minutes from Graceland.
The judicial branch is a system of courts that applies the laws. Both the federal government and each of the 5 states have individual judicial branches which all serve this purpose. The federal judicial system reviews any cases or controversies that arise from laws put into effect by Congress or by the Constitution.
The judicial branch was aided by the creation of a court system when the Federal Judiciary Act was passed in 1789. The Federal Judiciary Act created... One of the goals of the Constitution was to establish justice. There are some ways the Constitution allows for this to happen. The writers of the Constitution created the judicial branch. This responsibility of this branch of government is to determine what the laws made the legislative branch mean.