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Tamahi Random Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| An order by the Supreme Court to send up the case record because there is a claim that the lower court mishandled the case ( more than ninety percent of all writs are denied by the court) | Writ Of Certiorari |
| A term from Latin meaning, "let the decision stand" that serves as the basic principle of common law. It also means a respect for precedent | Stare Decisis |
| Segregation or reacial seperation that hqas occurred through natural residential patterns or by private, non-political means. | De Facto Segregation |
| Segregation that is sanctioned by law and government | De Jure Segregation |
| A relaxation of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union that occured in mid-1970s. | Detente |
| The collection of articles written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay that defended the new Constitution against the anti-Federalists during ratification period | Federalist Papers |
| Voters whose allegiance to the main political parties is reletively weak or virtually nonexistent | Independent Voters |
| Philosopher who viewed humanity as irrational, passionate, selfish and even evil. The role of the state, according to Hobbes, was mainly to restrain the emotional and moral excesses of the ruled;otherwise , order would dissolve into chaos. | Thomas Hobbes |
| Purposefl, malicious, and knowingly false written defamation of an individual's character or reputation. | Libel |
| The magazine that in 1936 incorrectly predicted Landon's win over Roosevelt due to unwrittingly creating a biased sample through surveys mailed primarily to wealthier classes of voters. | Literary Digest |
| A Russian term meaning "restructuring" whoch Gorbachev used to promote his plicies of economic change in the Soviet Union during the 1980s | Perestroika |
| A tax that requires wealthier citizens to pay a higher rate of taxes than lower-income citizens | Progressive Tax |
| The Fifth Amendment protection that states that an individual cannot be compelled to testify against him or herself | Self-Incrimination |
| The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution | Bill of Rights |
| A period of one party rule symbolized by James Monroe's near-unanimous election in 1820 | Era of Good Feelings |
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