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Chapter Four
Term | Definition |
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Civil Liberties | freedoms to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment |
Censorship | the banning of printed materials or films due to alarming or offensive ideas. |
Petition | a formal request for government action |
Slander | spoken untruths that are harmful to someones reputation |
Libel | written untruths that are harmful to someones reputation |
Search Warrent | a court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspects home or business and take specific items as evidence |
Indictment | a formal charge by grand jury |
Grand Jury | a group of citizens that decides whether there is sufficent evidence to accuse someone of a crime |
Double Jeopardy | People who are accused of a crime cannot be put on trial again for the same trial |
Due Process | following established legal procedures |
Eminent Domain | The right of government to take private property for public use |
Bail | a sum of money used as security deposit to ensure that an accused person returns for his or her trial |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
poll tax | a sum of money required of voters before they are permitted to cast a ballot |
Discrimination | unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group |
Segregation | the social separation of the races |
Civil rights | the rights of full citizenship and equality under the law |
affirmative action | programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities |
racial profiling | singling out an individual as a suspect due to apperance of ethnicity |