| A | B |
|---|
| bill of rights | the first 10 amendments to the constitution |
| civil rights | positive acts of govt, freedom of speech, religion |
| alien | foreign born resident or non-citizen |
| due process clause | guarantee that no state can deny basic rights to its people |
| libel | false or malicious use of printed words |
| slander | flase or malicious use of spoken words |
| picketing | patrolling of a business site by workers who are on strike |
| assemble | to gather with one another in order to express views on public matters |
| due process | the govt must act fairly and in accord with established rules in all that it does |
| involuntary servitude | forced labor |
| discrimination | bias, unfairness |
| probable cause | reasonable grounds, a reasonable suspicion of a crime |
| grand jury | the formal device by which a person can be accused of a serious crime |
| indictment | formal complaint before a grand jury which charges the accused with one or more crimes |
| double jeopardy | part of the 5th, once a person is tried for a crime, they cannot be charged again for that same crime |
| miranda rule | constitutional rights which police must read to a suspect before questioning can occur |
| capital punishment | the death penalty |
| immigrant | those people legally admitted as permanent residents of a country |
| segregation | the seperation of one group from another |
| integration | the process of bringing a group into equal membership in society |
| citizen | a member of a state or nation who owes allegiance to it by birth or naturalization and is entitled to full civil rights |
