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Ch. 4 vocab
Ch. 4 definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civil liberties | freedoms to think and act without government interference or unfair legal treatment |
| censorship | the banning of printed materials or film due to alarming or offensive ideas. |
| petiton | a formal request for government action |
| slander | spoken untuths that are harmful to someones reputation |
| search warrant | a court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspects home or buisness and take specific items as evidence |
| libel | written untruths that are harmful to someones reputation |
| indictment | a formal charge by grand jury |
| grand jury | a group of citizens that decide wheather there is suffiecient evidence to accuse somone of a crime |
| double jepardy | putting someone on tiral for a crime of which he or she was previously acquitted |
| eminent domain | the right of government to take private property for public use |
| bail | a sum of money used as a security deposit to ensure that an accused person returns for his or her trial |
| sufferage | the right to vote |
| poll taxes | a sum of money requiredof voters before they are permitted to cast the ballot |
| discrimintation | unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group |
| segrigation | the social separation of the races |
| civil rights | the rights of full citizenship and equality under the law |
| affirmitive action | programs intended to make up for past discriminationby helping minorty groupsand women gain access to jobs and oppertunities |
| racial profiling | singling out an individual as a suspect due to appearance of ethnicity |
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