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Undergraduate 2
11/11/2009

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Term
Civil Liberties
Definition
The Rights to Personhood
Term
Due Process Clause
Definition
All legal rights that one owed to a person according to law is to be respected by the government
Term
5th Amendment
Definition
You don't have to justify against a case, neither does your spouse
Term
14th amendment
Definition
Defines citizenship to USA reps
Term
Civil Rights
Definition
Group memberships like religion and some not by choice like race
Term
Bill of Rights
Definition
The first 10 amendments
Term
1st Amendment
Definition
Freedom of Speech and Religion
Term
Establishment Clause
Definition
No established religions
Term
Free Exercise clause
Definition
You can practice what you want but if it's against the law then you can be arrested.
Term
Prior restraint
Definition
The government has the right to censor certain parts of a speech.
Term
Freedom of Speech
Definition
In the first amendment, The right for free speech but can be censored by the law.
Term
Sedition
Definition
9/11 issues, treason to destabilize the government by supporting the enemies
Term
Joseph McCarthy
Definition
Against Communism
Term
Slander
Definition
Defamating somebody by oral assertion of untrue statements to hurt someones fame.
Term
Libel
Definition
Broadcasting false things about someone with an intention to defame their reputation
Term
John Peter Zenger
Definition
Owned the second newspaper in NYC who was charged for libel against the government.
Term
Commercial Speech
Definition
A speech done on behalf of a company/individual in order to make a profit.
Term
Draft card burning
Definition
Absolutely illegal
Term
Flag burning
Definition
Legal, but only with personal use.
Term
Change of Venue
Definition
Moving a trial to a different day in order to benefit or fault it.
Term
Sequestering
Definition
To take temporary posession of as a security against a case.
Term
Probable Cause
Definition
The right to check a place for illegal issues.
Term
Self incrimination
Definition
The act of accusing oneself for a crime in which someone can be killed.
Term
Grand Jury
Definition
Type of jury that determines if there is enough evidence for a trial.
Term
Double Jeopardy
Definition
Defends one from being tried twice using the same facts and evidence.
Term
Cruel and Unusual Punishment
Definition
The government cannot inflict humiliation or suffering on anybody no matter what the case is.
Term
Capital punishment
Definition
Death penalty
Term
Plea Bargaining
Definition
Agreement in a criminal case prosecutor lets defendant plea guilty for lighter sentence
Term
Symbolic Speech
Definition
A speech that displays messages clearly and purposefully
Term
3/5ths Clause
Definition
Slaves counted as 3/5ths vote for enumeration of population
Term
Literacy Test
Definition
Refers to the government testing potential citizens as american citizens
Term
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Definition
Outlawed Racial segregation in schools, public places, and work.
Term
Earl Warren
Definition
14th Cheif in Justice in the US
Term
Thurgood Marshal
Definition
First African american to serve the surpreme court
Term
Orval Faubus
Definition
Defied an order against the population of segregation of different races @ school
Term
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Definition
A protest campaign that was opposed to racial segregation on busses
Term
EEOC
Definition
The agency of US government that enforces federal employment discrimination laws
Term
Class action suits
Definition
A group of people bringing a case collectively to court
Term
Affirmative Action
Definition
Policies that take race and gender into possible equal possibility
Term
Quota System
Definition
A system of counting immigrants into the country yearly.
Term
NOW
Definition
The National Organization for Women
Term
Roe V Wade
Definition
Issue of Abortion, highly controversial
Term
Suspect Categories
Definition
Disctriminatory Categories
Term
ERA
Definition
The Equal Rights Association
Term
NAACP
Definition
National Association for the advancement of colored people
Term
Plessy V Ferguson
Definition
Case that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation in public places
Term
Seperate But Equal
Definition
A term that implied rights to colored people but wasn't enforced properly
Term
De Jure
Definition
Concerning Law
Term
De Facto
Definition
Concerning Fact
Term
Brown V Board of Education
Definition
Declaring State laws that established seperate public schools with blacks and whites
Term
Brown V Board of Education
Definition
Declaring State laws that established seperate public schools with blacks and whites
Term
Grandfather Clauses
Definition
An acception of an old value in newer contexts
Term
13th Amendment
Definition
Abolishes slavery
Term
15th Amendment
Definition
Suffrage in white males
Term
19th Amendment
Definition
Womens Suffrage
Term
24th Amendment
Definition
Taxing
Term
26th Amendment
Definition
Voting age is 18
Term
Defendant
Definition
Party who is being charged with a crime
Term
Plaintiff
Definition
Party who is charging against defendant
Term
Jurisdiction
Definition
Where a political leader is appointed to deal with legal matters
Term
Misdemeanor
Definition
"lesser" crime
Term
Felony
Definition
Serious Crime
Term
9th Amendment
Definition
Unnumerated rights
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