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Why was the Judiciary Act of 1789 an important piece of legislation in U.S. history?

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It established the federal judiciary of the United States. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution prescribed that the "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and such inferior Courts" as Congress saw fit to establish.

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