Billete chapter 4 vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Civil Liberties | Freedoms to think and act without government interference |
| Censorship | the banning of printed materials or films due to alarming or offensive ideas |
| Petition | a formal request for government action |
| Slander | spoken untruths that are harmful to someones reputation |
| Libel | written untruths that are harmful to someones reputation |
| Media | a means of communication without large influence |
| Imply | to sugest something rather than directly say it |
| Search Warrant | a court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspects home or business and take specific items as evidence |
| Indictment | a formal charge by a grand jury |
| Grand Jury | a group of citizens that decides whether there is sufficient evidence to accuse someone of a crime |
| Double Jeopardy | the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal offense for which he has already been tried |
| Due process | following established legal procedures |
| Eminent Domain | the right of government to take private property for public use. |
| Bail | the legal system that allows an accused person to be temporarily released from custody (usually on condition that a sum of money guarantees their appearance at trial) |
| Proportion | the size or amount of something in relation to something else or to a whole. |
| Involve | to take part in or include as a necessary component |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Poll tax | a sum of money required of voters before they are permitted to cast a ballot |
| Violate | to fail, to keep, or to break |
| Specify | to mention exactly or clearly |
| Discrimination | Segregation |
| Civil Rights | the rights of full citizenship and equality under the law |
| Affirmative action | programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities |
| racial profiling | singling out an individual as a suspect due to appearance of ethnicity |
| section | an area or division |
| gender | a notation of the sex of a person |
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