B2 · 5 minutes · Government

The Rise of the US Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court was not always powerful. One early case changed its role. A VOA Learning English report.

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What you’ll practise

Follow a short history of an institution.

Words to know

dispute: A disagreement or argument.
justice: A judge on the Supreme Court.
judiciary: The system of courts and judges.

Words at this lesson’s level (B2)

At B2, you probably know about 98% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at B2 or below.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Text and audio from “The Rise of the US Supreme Court”, U.S. History, VOA Learning English, published 2018-03-18. Kelly Jean Kelly wrote this story for VOA Learning English. Public domain.

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Five sentences selected from the report and cut into clips. Explanations and vocabulary are original.

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