Legal Question in Constitutional Law in District of Columbia

U.S. Federal Courts

Under what Article of the Constitution were the Federal Courts created?

Article III specifically calls for them to be ''ordained and established'' and yet those words are mysteriously absent except in a few cases where they are ''established'' but not ''ordained''.

Further, they can not be Article III Constitutional courts because they do not meet the requirements of Article VI requiring an oath or affirmation to ''support'' the Constitution.

Of course there are numerous other proofs these are not Article III Constitutional courts so what are they?

thanks


Asked on 1/05/07, 8:37 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Hendrickson Law Office Michael E. Hendrickson

Re: U.S. Federal Courts

I believe, Sir, that you've established (if not ordained) your manifest objections to Article 111 Federal Courts some 220 years too late.

(But, surely, one of your philosophical progenitors must have raised these same or similar[essentially semantic] objections on or around September, 1787, when the Constitutional Convention was convened in Philadelphia.)

And, no, don't bother to offer your opinion on Amendment XV1(1913) to our Constitution and the controverted legitimacy (in some fringe quarters of the electorate)regarding the power of the IRS to levy federal taxes against the American citizenry.

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Answered on 1/06/07, 12:58 am


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