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71:8.13 [Part III]
11. The ending of war — international adjudication of national and racial differences by continental courts of nations presided over by a supreme planetary tribunal automatically recruited from the periodically retiring heads of the continental courts. The continental courts are authoritative; the world court is advisory — moral.
72:2.9 [Part III]
This nation is adjudicated by two major court systems — the law courts and the socioeconomic courts. The law courts function on the following three levels:
72:2.10 [Part III]
1. Minor courts of municipal and local jurisdiction, whose decisions may be appealed to the high state tribunals.
72:2.11 [Part III]
2. State supreme courts, whose decisions are final in all matters not involving the federal government or jeopardy of citizenship rights and liberties. The regional executives are empowered to bring any case at once to the bar of the federal supreme court.
72:2.12 [Part III]
3. Federal supreme court — the high tribunal for the adjudication of national contentions and the appellate cases coming up from the state courts. This supreme tribunal consists of twelve men over forty and under seventy-five years of age who have served two or more years on some state tribunal, and who have been appointed to this high position by the chief executive with the majority approval of the supercabinet and the third house of the legislative assembly. All decisions of this supreme judicial body are by at least a two-thirds vote.
72:2.13 [Part III]
The socioeconomic courts function in the following three divisions:
72:2.14 [Part III]
1. Parental courts, associated with the legislative and executive divisions of the home and social system.
72:2.15 [Part III]
2. Educational courts — the juridical bodies connected with the state and regional school systems and associated with the executive and legislative branches of the educational administrative mechanism.
72:2.16 [Part III]
3. Industrial courts — the jurisdictional tribunals vested with full authority for the settlement of all economic misunderstandings.
72:2.17 [Part III]
The federal supreme court does not pass upon socioeconomic cases except upon the three-quarters vote of the third legislative branch of the national government, the house of elder statesmen. Otherwise, all decisions of the parental, educational, and industrial high courts are final.
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