| A | B |
|---|
| writ of habeas corpus | Order to law enforcement to release the accussed so the legitimacy of their arrest can be proved. |
| bill of attainder | Laws that send accussed directly to prison without court system. |
| ex post facto laws | Making a law and then goin gback and arresting people who broke it before it was a law. |
| probable cause | reasonable grounds for suspicion based upon a good source |
| exclusionary rule | Court standard stating that evidence seized in an improper manner cannot be admitted to court. |
| Mapp Vs Ohio | Evidence found in an illegal search of the Mapp home could not be used against them. |
| Escobedo Vs Illinois | Supreme Court ruling that atated that Escobedo's right to protection had been denied when the poilce did not allow him to see a lawyer. |
| Gideon Vs Wainright | Supreme Court ruling that all accussed must be represented by an attorney even if they cannot afford one. |
| capital punishment | Death penalty |
| Miranda Vs Arizona | Supreme Court ruling that an accussed must be made aware of their rights before they are questioned. |
| rational basis | relationship between the classificationof a group of people and the purpose of that classification |
| suspect classification | groupings made on the basis of race, sex, or national origin |
| segregate | seperate by races |
| desegregation | eliminationof separation by races |
| Brown Vs Board of Education | Supreme Court ruling stating that separate, but equal in education is inherently unequal. |
| Plessy Vs Ferguson | ruled that separate but equal faciclities for blacks was constitutional |
| de jure segregation | segregation as a result of law. |
| de facto segregation | Segregation that results from housing patterns and the practice of assigning students to neighborhood schools. |
| civil rights movement | Movement that fought for equality among citizens of the U.S. |
| suffrage | Voting rights |
| affirmative action | Government programs designed to end the effects of discriminatory hiring actionsof the past. |
| reverse discrimination | Treating minorities differently from others in order to make up for past discriminations. |
