We the people vocab unit 3 part 2
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danielhwilliams16 on March 6, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Adversary System | A judicial system in which the court of law is a neutral arena where two parties argue their differences. |
| Due Process of Law | All the procedures for fair treatment that must be carried out whenever a citizen is accused of a crime |
| Fundamental Rights | rights and privileges considered essential by the general society. |
| Incorporation | a process that extended the protections of the Bill of Rights against the actions of state and local governments |
| Inquisitorial System | the legal system which alows the judge to investigate, question witnesses, and seek out evidence |
| Procedural Due Process | The constitutional requirement that government must follow proper legal procedures before a person can be legitimately punished for an alleged offense. |
| Substantive Due Process | constitutional requirement that governments act reasonably and that the substance of the laws themselves be fair and reasonable; limits what a government may do. |
| Equality of Condition | Equality in all aspects of life, such as wealth, standards of living, medical care, and working conditions |
| Equality of Opportunity | a widely shared American ideal that all people should have the freedom to use whatever talents and wealth they have to reach their fullest potential |
| Intermediate Scrutiny | a legal test falling between ordinary and strict scrutiny relevant to issues of gender; under this test, the Supreme Court will allow gender classifications in laws if they are substantially related to an important government objective |
| Rational Basis | in U.S. constitutional law, the lowest level of scrutiny applied by courts deciding constitutional issues through judicial review |
| Strict Scrutiny | a Supreme Court test to see if a law denies equal protection because it does not serve a compelling state interest and is not narrowly tailored to achieve that goal. |
| Separate but Equal | the argument, once upheld by the supreme court but later reversed, that different public facilities for blacks and whites were constitutional if the facilities were of equal quality |
| Disenfranchisement | the systematic exclusion of a group of people from power in a society regardless of individual effort |
| Enfranchisement | a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) |
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