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Vocab
Chap 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| civil liberties | the freedom to think and act without the government say |
| censorship | the banning of printed materials. |
| petition | a formal request for the interment action |
| slander | spoken untruths that is harmful to someone reputation |
| libel | written untruth that would be harmful. |
| search warrant | a court order allowing law enforcement to search the person home |
| indictment | a formal change by a grand jury |
| grand jury | a group of citizens that deiced whether there is sufficient evidence to accuse some one of a crime |
| double jeopardy | putting someone on tail for something he or she acquitted |
| due process | following establish legal procedures |
| eminent domain | the right of the government to take private property |
| bail | a sum o money used to security deposit o ensure an accused person returns for his or her trail. |
| suffrage | he right to vote |
| poll taxes | a sum of money required of voters before they permitted to cast a ballot |
| discrimination | unfair treatment based of a certain group. |
| segregation | singling out an individual due to their ethnicity |
| civil rights | the rights to full citizenship and equality under the law |
| affirmative action | a program intended to make up for past discrimination by helping maintain groups |
| racial profiling | singling out someone because of their appearance of ethnicity |