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