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| 9666812678 | Civil Liberties | The guarantees of the safety of persons, opinions, and property from the arbitrary acts of the government , including freedom of speech and freedom of religion | 0 | |
| 9666812679 | Civil Rights | A term used for those positive acts of government that seek to make constitutional guarantees a reality for all people, e.g. the prohibition of discrimination | 1 | |
| 9666813797 | Due Process Clause | Part of the 14th amendment which guarantees that no state deny basic rights to its people | 2 | |
| 9666814472 | Establishment Clause | Separates church and state | 3 | |
| 9666814473 | Libel | False and malicious use of printed words | 4 | |
| 9666814474 | Slander | False and malicious use of spoken words | 5 | |
| 9666815430 | Seditious speech | The advocating, or urging, of an attempt to overthrow the government by force, or to disrupt its lawful activities by force | 6 | |
| 9666815431 | Symbolic speech | Expression by conduct; communicating ideals through facial expressions, body language, or by carrying a sign or wearing an armband | 7 | |
| 9666816107 | Right of association | The right to associate with other to promote political, economic, and other social causes | 8 | |
| 9666816108 | Police power | The authority of each state to act to protect and promote the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare of its people | 9 | |
| 9666817236 | Probable Clause | Reasonable grounds, a reasonable suspicion of a crime | 10 | |
| 9666817237 | Exclusionary rule | Evidence gained as the result of an illegal act by police cannot be used against the person from whom it was seized | 11 | |
| 9666818091 | Grand jury | The formal device by which a person can be accused of a serious crime | 12 | |
| 9666818092 | Indictment | A formal complaint before a grand jury which charges the accused with one or more crimes | 13 | |
| 9666818100 | Double jeopardy | Part of the 5th amendment which says that no person can be put in jeopardy of life or limb twice. Once a person has been tried for a crime, he or she cannot be tried again for the same crime | 14 | |
| 9666819143 | Miranda rule | The constitutional rights which police must read to a suspect before questioning can occur | 15 | |
| 9666820907 | Ex post facto law | A law applied to an act committed before its passage | 16 | |
| 9666820908 | Bail | A sum of money that the accused may be required to post (deposit with the court) as a guarantee that he or she will appear in court at the proper time | 17 | |
| 9666821634 | Preventive Detention | A law which allows federal judges to order that an accused felon be held, without bail, when there is good reason to believe that he or she will commit yet another serious crime before trial | 18 | |
| 9666821635 | Capital punishment | The death penalty | 19 | |
| 9666823866 | Civil Disobedience | A form of protest in which people deliberately but non-violently violate the law, as a means of expressing their opposition to some particular law or public policy | 20 |
