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civics chapter 4
vocab
Term | Definition |
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Civil liberties | freedom to think and act without government interence or fear of unfair legal treatment |
Censor ship | 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 someone's reputation- character |
Libel | written untruths that are harmful to someone's reputation |
Search warrant | a court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspect's 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 weather there is sufficient evidence to accuse someone of a crime |
Double jeopardy | putting someone on trial for a crime of when he or she was previously acquitted |
Due process | following established legal procedures |
Eminent domain | the rights of government to take private property for public use |
Bail | the sum of money used as a security deposit to ensure that a accused person returns for his or her trial |
Suffrage | the right to vote |
Poll tax | the sum of money required of voters before they are permitted to cast a ballot |
Discrimination | unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group |
Segregation | the social separation |
civil rights | the rights of a fully citizenship and equality the law |
Affirmative | programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and woman gain access to jobs ans opportunities |
Racial profiling | singling out a individual as a suspect due to appearance of ethnicity |