However, not all highest courts are named as such. Civil law states do not tend to have singular highest courts. Additionally, the highest court in some jurisdictions is not named the "Supreme Court", for example, the High Court of Australia; this is because decisions by the High Court could formerly be appealed to the Privy Council. On the other hand, in some places the court named the "Supreme Court" is not in fact the highest court; examples include the New York Supreme Court, the Supreme Courts of several Canadian provinces/territories and the former Supreme Court of Judicature of England and Wales, which are all superseded by higher Courts of Appeal.

Some countries have multiple "supreme courts" whose respective jurisdictions have different geographical extents, or which are restricted to particular areas of law. In particular, countries with a federal system of government typically[citation needed] have both a federal supreme court (such as the Supreme Court of the United States), and supreme courts for each member state (such as the Supreme Court of Nevada), with the former having jurisdiction over the latter only to the extent that the federal constitution extends federal law over state law. Jurisdictions with a civil law system often have a hierarchy of administrative courts separate from the ordinary courts, headed by a supreme administrative court as it the case in the Netherlands. A number of jurisdictions also maintain a separate constitutional court (first developed in the Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920), such as Austria, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Portugal, Spain and South Africa.

Answer this series of questions:

1. Is the Supreme Court always the highest ranking court?
2. Can you give an example?
3. What's higher?
4. Can there be more then one in the same country?
5. What term is used in the land down under?
6. Do they handle appeals?
7. When was that system established?
8. Do some nations have a place for constitutional matters?
9. What nation is credited for using that first?
10. When?
11. What other nations that do this?
1. No
2. he New York Supreme Court,
3. The higher Courts of Appeal.
4. Yes
5. Privy Council
6. Yes
7. unknown
8. yes
9. Czechoslovak
10. 1920
11. Austria, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Portugal, Spain and South Africa