Unit 3 Vocab Flashcards
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Due process of law
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- Denies the government the right to without due process of law to deprive people of life liberty and property
2
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Equal protection of the law
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- A standard of equal treatment that must be observed by the government
3
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Selective incorporation
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-Court cases that apply Bill of Rights to states
4
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Prior restraint
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- Censorship of a publication
5
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Clear-and-present-danger test
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- Law should not punish speech unless there was a clear and present danger of producing harmful actions
6
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libel
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- writing that falsely injures another person
7
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Symbolic speech
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- An act that conveys a political message
8
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Free-exercise clause
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- First amendment requirement that law cannot prevent free exercise of religion.
9
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Establishment clause
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- First amendment ban on laws “respecting an establishment of religion”
10
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Wall of separation
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- Court ruling that government cannot be involved with religion
11
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Exclusionary rule
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- Improperly gathered evidence may not be introduced in a criminal trial
12
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Probable cause
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- Reasonable cause to issue a warrant for arrest or search, more than suspicion.
13
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Good-faith exception
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- An error in gathering evidence sufficiently minor that it may be used in a trial.
14
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Civil rights
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- The rights of people to be treated without unreasonable and unconstitutional differences
15
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Separate-but-equal doctrine
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- The doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson that African Americans could constitutionally be kept in separate but equal facilities
