| A | B |
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| civil liberty | The freedom to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair legal treatment |
| civil | Of or relating to citizens |
| free speech | The right to say our opinions, in publicor private, without fear of being stopped or punished by the government for those ideas |
| censorship | The banning of printed material or films due to alarming or offensive ideas they contain |
| petition | A formal request for government action |
| restriction | A limit placed on something |
| slander | Spoken untruths that harmful to someone's reputation |
| libel | Written untruths that are harmful to someone's reputation |
| accused | A person officially charged with a crime |
| probable cause | A strong reason to think that a person or property was involved in a crime |
| search warrant | A court order allowing police to search property and seize evidence |
| indictment | A document issued by a grand jury to charge someone with a crime |
| double jeopardy | Putting someone on trial for a crime of which he or she was previously found innocent |
| self-incrimination | Giving evidenceabout yourself that could lead to you being found guilty of a crime |
| due process | Following established legal procedures |
| eminent domain | The right of the government to take private property, usually land, for public use |
| bail | A sum of money used as a security deposit to ensure that an accused person who is released from jail returns for his or her trial |
| license | A document granting the holder permission to do something |
| retain | To keep |
| black codes | Laws from after the Civil War that kept African Americans from holdind certain jobs, gave them few property rights, and limited their rights in other ways |
| suffrage | The right to vote |
| conduct | To carry out |
| poll tax | A sum of moneyrequired of voters before they are permitted to cast a ballot |
