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The Third Branch

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Article III vests judicial power in one Supreme Court and in lower courts that Congress may establish.

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The Constitution built the top of the judiciary and handed Congress the rest of the blueprint.

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The federal courts' shape below the top is statutory, and Congress has reshaped it repeatedly.