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Ch. 4+5 Vocab.
AHS Daily AP US Government
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Political Studies
12th Grade
12/10/2008

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Term
civil liberties
Definition
legal constitutional protections against government. Although our ________ are formally set down in the Bill of Rights, the courts, police, and legislatures, define their meaning.
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incorporation doctrine
Definition
legal concept under which the Supreme Court has nationalized the Bill of Rights by making most of its provisions applicable to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment.
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Prior restraint
Definition
when government prevents material from being published. It is usually unconstitutional in the United States
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shield laws
Definition
protect reporters from prosecution for “protecting their sources” and withholding evidence
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symbolic speech
Definition
nonverbal communication, such as burning a flag or wearing an armband
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Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
Definition
states that “equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.”
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Comparable worth
Definition
is the issue raised when women who hold traditionally female jobs are paid less than men for working at jobs requiring comparable skill.
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Affirmative action
Definition
policy designed to give special attention to or compensatory treatment of members of some previously disadvantaged group.
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Equal protection of the laws
Definition
Part of the Fourteenth Amendment emphasizing that he laws must provide equivalent “protection” to all people.
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Suffrage
Definition
The legal right to vote, extended to African Americans by the Fifteenth Amendment, to women by the Nineteenth Amendment, and to people over the age of 18 by the Twenty-sixth Amendment.
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Poll taxes
Definition
Small taxes, levied on the right to vote, that often fell due at a time of year when poor African-American sharecroppers had the least cash on hand. This method was used by most Southern states to exclude African Americans from voting registers. They were declared void by the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1964.
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White primary
Definition
One of the means used to discourage African-American voting that permitted political parties in the heavily Democratic South to exclude African Americans from primary elections, thus depriving them of a voice in the real contests. The Supreme Court declared these unconstitutional in 1944.
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