8 Civics-Chap 4-Vocab
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- civil liberties
- freedoms to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment
- censorship
- the banning of printed materials or films due to alarming or offensive ideas
- petition
- a formal request for government action
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slander
libel -
spoken untruths that are harmful to someone's rep
written untruths that are harmful to someone's rep - 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 whether there is sufficient evidence to accuse someone of a crime
- double jeopardy
- putting someone on trial for a crime of which he was previously acquitted
- due process
- following established legal procedures
- 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 trial
- suffrage
- the right to vote
- poll tax
- a 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 of the races