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How many federal circuit courts and how many federal district courts were set up by the Judiciary Act of 1789

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The Act also created 13 judicial districts within the 11 states that had then ratified the Constitution (North Carolina and Rhode Island were added as judicial districts in 1790, and other states as they were admitted to the Union).

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