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