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| The rights that are protected by the First Amendment are speech,religion=establishment cause+free excercise clause, press, assembly and petition |
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| Unreasonable searches and seizures |
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| Self Incrimination,Double Jeopardy,Due Process,Eminent Domain and the Right to Grand Jury |
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| Right to fair trial:speedy and public trials |
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| Trial by jury in civil cases |
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| Cruel and Unusual Punishment and Excessive Bail |
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| Prohibits governments from creating an official or established church as well as prohibiting the governement from benefiting believers instead of non-believers. |
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| Prohibits the government from interfering with the expression of religious beliefs. |
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| Speech that involves only spoken words without actions. |
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| Speech that combines spoken words with action, such as demonstrations and picketing. |
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| actions that are themselves a message, without spoken words; also known as expressive conduct. |
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| government control of free expression. |
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| a published false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation. |
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| the action of making a false statement that can be damaging to a person's reputation. |
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| A general warrant can search colonial homes and businesses for smuggled goods on which import taxes had not been pain. |
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| states that legal doctring that excludes from a trial where any evidence is siezed illegally by police. |
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| large jury that normally has 23 citizens and they determine if there is enough evidence to charge a defendant with a crime. |
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| a trial jury of 6 to 12 citizens that decides if the facts in a civil of criminal case are true. |
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| what happens when the government cannot force the person being accused to take a lie-detector test or give physical evidence like blood tests. |
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| The governments power to take private property for public use. |
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| Questioning potentil jurors to reveal their biases and knowledge of the case. |
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| A court order forcing a witness to testify or produce relevant evidence. |
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| a court order directing that an officer who has custody of a prisoner show cause why the prisoner is being held. |
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| rights that are not specifically listed in the Constitution |
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| The system of shared power between national and state government. |
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| the doctrine that states can declare an act of federal government to be null and void also known as interposition |
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