Ch 4 Vocab

Question 0

First 10 amendments to tge US constitution

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Bill of Rights

Question 1

Legal constitutional protections against the govt

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Civil

Liberties

Question 2

Freedom if press,speech,religuon.& assembly

Answer 2

First amendment

Question 3

No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the US

Answer 3

14th amendment

Question 4

part of 14th amend that guaranteez ppl cant be deprives of life,liberty,or property by US or state govt w/out due process of law

Answer 4

Due process clause

Question 5

Legal concept under which the supreme court has nationalized the bill of rights by making most of its provisions aoplicable to the starea throught the 14th amendment

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Incorporation doctrine

Question 6

Ppart of 1st amendment that congress shall make no law respecting an est of religion

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Establishment clause

Question 7

1st amendment provision that prohibits govt from interfering w/practice of religion

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Free exercise clause

Question 8

Govt preventing material from being published, limits press, usyally unconstitutional

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Prior restraint

Question 9

Publication o false or malicious statements that damage someones rep

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Libel

Question 10

Nonverbal communication

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Symbolic soeech

Question 11

Communication in the form of advertisement

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Commercial speech

Question 12

Where the police have a reason to believe that a person should be arressted

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Probable cause

Question 13

Getting evidence in a haphazard or random manner a practice prohibited by the 4th amendment

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Unreasonable searches and seizures

Question 14

Written authorization from a court specifying the area to be searched and what the police are searching for

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Search warrant

Question 15

Rule that evidence, no matter gow incriminating cannot be included into a trual if its not constitutionally obtained

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Exclusionary rule

Question 16

Designed to protect rights of pol accused of crimes

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Fifth amendment

Question 17

When an individual accused of a crime is compelled to be a witness against themselves in court

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Self incrimination

Question 18

Designed to protect ppl accused of crimes(right to counsel,confront witnessez, and soeedy and public trial)

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6th amendment

Question 19

Struck btwn the defendants lawyer and the prosecutor to the effect that the defendant will plead guilty to lesser crime in exchange for states promise not to prosecute the defendant for a more serious crime

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Plea bargaining

Question 20

Forbides cruel and unusual amendment

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8th amendment

Question 21

Although supreme court has ruled that mandatory death sentences for certain offenses are unconstitutional it hasnt held that death penalty constitutes cryel andnunusual punishment

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Cruel an unusual punishment

Question 22

Right to a private personal life free from intrusion of govt

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Right to privacy