Talk:Federal jurisdiction (United States)

Maybe this page should be Federal jurisdiction (United States). A more general page about court structure in a federal state needs to be fleshed out and this page also needs to be rewritten, it is very choppy. Alex756


 * I added a short introduction.


 * I don't really understand how this article is currently organized. It doesn't make sense to me to discuss state action, constitutional law, section 1983, etc., under this section. Federal jurisdiction, at least as a term of art, relates to the power of a federal court to hear a case. There are currently articles on subject matter jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, supplemental jurisdiction, etc., which are not linked from here. Some of this discussion does occur under jurisdiction, but it seems to me that discussion should be over here rather than in a general discussion of jurisdiction all over the world.


 * In any case, I am quite familiar with federal jurisdiction, and am happy to help, but need some guidance on the overall reorganization here. It seems to me this article needs to be almost rewritten from scratch.Ajkessel | Talk 01:05, 16 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I don't know how it affects whether this page should be merged, but I noticed that a discussion of legislative jurisdiction was missing (e.g. whether federal or state law or both applies to a particular piece of territory). I attempted to at least partially remedy the situation. PubliusFL 18:37, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Moved the page
I have moved the article to Federal jurisdiction (United States). The only other choice would have been the far more difficult task of globalizing it. But it continues to have a number of problems including a complete lack of sources, and little organization of any type. As it stands now the entry is quite poor, hard to use, and not Wikipedia style. I will attempt to salvage it. But it could take a complete rewrite. Awg1010 (talk) 01:45, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Terms
Someone needs to explain what is meant by "Standing, Case or Controversy and State Action." To an outsider these are very confusing terms. Piratejosh85 (talk) 20:07, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Judicial Section
The second half of the Jud. section has little or nothing to do with jurisdiction. Piratejosh85 (talk) 22:12, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Useful Section
The subsection on the united states on the general page for jurisction (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisdiction#U.S.) would be a good place for someone to start when re-writing this article. Piratejosh85 (talk) 22:23, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

U.S. Const. art. IV, § 3, cl. 2
Could somebody review the accuracy of the next sentence on the part that indicates "and other territories"...  '''It should not be Under clause 17 Article I Section 8 of the Constitution, it should be under tthe U.S. Const. art. IV, § 3, cl. 2 ("The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States...").

One aspect of federal jurisdiction is the extent of federal legislative power. Under the Constitution, Congress has power to legislate only in the areas that are delegated to it. Under clause 17 Article I Section 8 of the Constitution however, Congress has power to "exercise exclusive Legislation in all cases whatsoever" over the federal district (Washington, D.C.) and other territory ceded to the federal government by the states, such as for military installations. Federal jurisdiction is said to exist over such territory.

Properties and territories of the U.S Federal Government, are subject to the Congress’ plenary powers under the territorial clause of Article IV, sec. 3, of the U.S. Constitution) U.S. Const. art. IV, § 3, cl. 2 ("The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States...").

--Seablade (talk) 03:27, 14 December 2010 (UTC)