Constitutional Rights
First Amendment
Individual Liberties
Crime and Punishment
Squash
100
What word means to follow established and complete legal procedures?
Due Process
100
What word describes a spoken defamatory statement?
Slander
100
What does the Second Amendment protect?
The right to bear arms
100
Money pledged by the accused as a guarantee that they will return to court for trial
Bail
100
What word describes a printed defamatory statement?
Libel
200
This word means the basic freedom to think and act that all people have.
Civil Liberties
200
The First Amendment protects the right to communicate ideas through symbols and actions, what is this called?
symbolic speech
200
This document gives police legal authority to search private property.
search warrant
200
This term describes the rights of the accused.
Miranda rights
200
What protects people from self incrimination?
The Fif
300
This word describes the right of fair and equal status and treatment.
Civil Rights
300
What term describes the unconstitutional attempt to censor expression before it is printed?
prior restraint
300
This terms describes the strong likelihood that officials searching a private home or business would find evidence of a crime.
probable cause/reasonable suspicion
300
This term means that no person shall stand trial twice for the same offense
double jeopardy
300
This system of laws covers crimes and punishment
Criminal law
400
What extends many of the Bill of Rights protections to apply to state governments?
The Fourteenth Amendment
400
Name the part of the First Amendment that protects freedom of religion.
The free exercise clause
400
What law prevents illegally obtained evidence from being used in a case?
the exclusionary rule
400
This set of laws covers disputes over property or relationships
Civil law
400
If a law violates someone's inalienable rights then what other constitutional right is being violated
substantive due process
500
Who wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights?
George Mason
500
This part of the First Amendment declares that government cannot take action to create an official religion or support one religion over another.
establishment clause
500
This term describes the governments constitutional duty to follow certain procedures before punishing a person.
procedural due process
500
During this part of the trial the convicted are read their charges and enter a plea
the arraignment
500
If a defendant waives their right to a jury trial the judge will hear and decide the case alone. What is this called?
A bench trial
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