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chapter 4
key terms
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1.civil liberties | freedom to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment |
| 2.censorship | to banning of printed materials or films due to alarming or offensive ideas |
| 3.petition | a formal request for government action |
| 4.slander | spoken untruths that are harmful to someones reputations |
| 5.libel | written untruths that are harmful to someones repution |
| 6.search warrant | a court order allowing law enforcement to search a suspects home or business and take specific items as evidence |
| 7.indictment | a formal change by grant jury |
| 8.grand jury | a group of citizens that decide whether there is sufficient evidence to access some one of a crime |
| 9.double jeopardy | putting someone on trial for a crime which he or she was previously acquitted |
| 10.due process | following established legal producers |
| 11.eminent domain | the right of government to take private property for public use |
| 12.bail | sum of money used as a sercurity deposit to onsure that an acussed person returns for his or her trial |
| 13.suffrage | the right to vote |
| 14.poll tax | sum of money required of votes before they are permitted to case a ballot |
| 15.discrimination | unfair treatment based on prejudice against to a certain group |
| 16.segregation | the social seperation of the races |
| 17.civil rights | the rights of fall citizenship an equality under the law |
| 18.affirmative action | programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minorty groups and women gain access to jobs and apportunities |
| 19.racial profiling | singling out n individual as a suspect due to appearance of ethnicity |