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Section 1 'Due Process Of Law'
Section 2 'Freedom and Security'
Section 3 'Rights of the Accused'
Section 4 'Punishment'
Vocabulary
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Define Substantive Due Process:
The government must create fair policies and laws.
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This Amendment forbids the quartering (housing) of soldiers:
3rd Amendment
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What is a Bill of Attainder?
A legislative act that inflicts punishment without a court trial.
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What is Treason?
Betrayal of one’s country; in the constitution, by levying the war against the United States or offering comfort or aid to its enemies.
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Miranda Rule
The constitutional rights which police must read to a suspect before questioning can occur.
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What is Due Process?
The government must act fairly and in accord with established rules in all that it does.
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What is Writs of assistance?
Blanket search warrants with which British customs officials had invaded private homes to search for smuggled goods.
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Define a Bench Trial:
A trial in which the judge alone hears the case.
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What is it called to be punishable by death?
Capital Punishment
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What is Exclusionary rule?
Evidence gained as the result of an illegal act by police cannot be used against the person from whom it was seized.
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Define Police Power:
The authority of each state to act to protect and promote the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare of its people.
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Define involuntary servitude:
Forced Labor
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What is a formal complaint that the prosecutor lays before a grand jury?
An Indictment
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Define Preventive Detention:
It is a law which allows federal judges to order that an accused felon be held, without bail,
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Define Discrimination:
Bias, Unfairness
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What court case had the most controversial applications of the right of privacy?
Roe v. Wade
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What is Probable Cause?
A reasonable suspicion of crime
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What is Double Jeopardy?
Part of the 5th Amendment which says that no person can be put in jeopardy of life or limb twice.
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What Court case said it was NOT unconstitutional to subject a convicted murderer to a second electrocution after the chair had failed?
Louisiana v. Resweber
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What is Bill of Attainder?
A legislative act that inflicts punishment without a court trial
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What Court Case applied a rule that a state may place limits on womens rights to have an abortion but cannot impose an "undue burden"?
Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey
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What court case held that the 14th amendment forbids unreasonable searches and seozures by State and local officiers?
Mapp v Ohio
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What famous court case says it would no longer uphold convictions in any cases in which suspects was not told their constitutional rights?
Miranda v. Arizona
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Define Bail:
Is some money that the accused may be required to post as a guarantee that he/she will appear in court at the proper time.
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Define ex post facto law:
A law applied to an act committed before its passage.