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voir dire
check eligibility of Jurors
Punitive
money awarded in a lawsuit
hearsay
unreliable evidence
garnishment
portion of wages withheld to pay debt
reasonable doubt
criminal cases, doubt they commited the crime
contagonist
not main antagonist but makes things difficult
transcendentalism
new england 1820s/30s spirituality over reason, society corupts, individual greater than the masses.
civil disobedience
dont blindly follow laws, peaceful resistance,
walt whitman
american poet,essayist,journalist. leaves of grass, song of myself,
harlem
poem about african american struggles by langston hughes
john henryism
minorities working harder
redlining
deny services to certian neighborhoods based on race and economics
abscond
leave secretly
aquittal
not guilty
garnishment
waged withheld
double jepordy
cant be tried twice
denouncment
unravel
