Civil Rights/civil Liberties Vocab Pt. 1

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Civil Liberties

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Are guaranteed safeties for people, opinions, and property from undemocratic acts of government, including the freedoms of speech and religion.

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What does our government protect?

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Civil Rights

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A term used for the positive acts that the government has set in place to make constitutional guarantees a reality for all people

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The prohibitions of discrimination

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Alien👽

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Someone who is foreign-born, a noncitizen

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From another country

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Due Process Clause

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Is a part of the 14th amendment that guarantees that no state can deny any basic rights to it's people

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Process of Incorporation

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The process of including, most of the Bill of Rights into the 14th amendment's due process clause

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Establishment Clause

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Part of the 1st amendment of the constitution that guarantees the separation of church and state.

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Free Excersise Clause

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The 2nd part of the constitutional guarantee of religious freedom; Guarantees to each person the right to believe whatever they choose to believe in matters of religion

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Parochial

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Church-related

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Parochial school ⛪

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Libel

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False and malicious use of printed words

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Mean

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Slander

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False and malicious use of spoken words

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Mean and personal

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Sedition

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The crime of attempting to overthrow the government by force or to disrupt its lawful activities by violent acts.

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Getting in the way

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Seditious Speech

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Advocating, or urging an attempt to overthrow the government by force or to disrupt its lawful activities by violence

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Symbolic Speech

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An expression by conduct; communicating ideas through facial expressions, with body language, or by carrying a sign or wearing an armband

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Picketing

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The patrolling of a business site by workers who are on strike.

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Prior Restraint

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The idea that the government cannot curb ideas before they are expressed.

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Injunction

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A court order that forces or limits the performance of some act by a private individual or by a public official.

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Shield Laws

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A law that gives reporters some protection against having to disclose their sources or reveal other confidential information in legal proceedings.

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Assemble

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To gather with one another in order to express views on public views.

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Petition

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A citizen's right to bring their view to the attention of public officials by such means as written petitions, letters, lobbying, and marches.

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Civil Disobedience

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A form of protest in which people deliberately but non-violently violate the law as a means of expressing their opposition to some particular law or policy.

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Content Neutral

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The government may not regulate assemblies on the basis of what might be said.

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Right of Association

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The right to associate with others to promote political, economic, and other social causes.

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Due Process

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Doctrine that holds that the government must act fairly and in accord with established rules in all that it does.

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Procedural Due Process

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A concept that holds that the government must employ fair procedures and methods.

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Substantive Due Process

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A concept that holds that the government must create fair policies and laws.

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Police Power

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Is the authority of each state to act to protect and promote the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare of its people.

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Search Warrant

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A court order authorizing a search

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Eminent Domain

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The power of a government to take private property for public use.

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Involuntary Servitude

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Forced labor

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Discrimination

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Bias, unfairness

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Writs of Assistance

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A blanket search warrant with which British custom officials had invaded private homes to search for smuggled goods.

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Probable Cause

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Are reasonable grounds or reasonable suspicion for a crime.

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Exclusionary Rule

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A ruling stating that evidence gained as the result of an illegal act by police cannot be used against the person from whom it was seized.

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Grand Jury

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A formal device by which a person can be accused of a serious crime.

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Indictment

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A formal complaint before a grand jury that charges the accused with one or more crimes.

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Presentment

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Formal accusation brought by the grand jury on its own motion, rather than that of the prosecutor.

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Double Jeopardy

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Part of the 5th amendment staying that no person can be put in jeopardy of life of limb twice; once a person has been tried for a crime they cannot be tried again for the same crime.

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Bench Trial

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A trial in which the judge alone hears the case.

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Miranda Rule

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Constitutional rights that police must read to a suspect before questioning can occur.

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Bail

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A sum of money that the accused may be required to post (deposit with the court) as a guarantee that he or she will appear back in court at the proper time.

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Preventive Detention

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A law that allows federal judges to order that an accused felon be held, without bail, when there is a good reason to believe that they will commit yet another serious crime before trial.

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Capital Punishment

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Death sentence

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Treason

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The betrayal of one's country; in the constitution, "by levying war against the United States or offering comfort or aid to its enemies."

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Writs of Habeas Corpus

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A court order that prevents unjust arrests and imprisonments.

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Innocent until proven guilty

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Bill of Attainder

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A legislative act that inflicts punishment without a court trial.

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Ex Post Facto Law

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A law applied to an act committed before its passage.