FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV: UNIT 3 VOCAB

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP GOV: UNIT 3 VOCAB

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Question 1: Exclusionary rule

Answer:

Requirement that evidence unconstitutionally or illegally obtained be excluded from a criminal trial.

Question 2: Double jeopardy

Answer:

Trial or punishment for the same crime by the same government; forbidden by the Constitution

Question 3: Literacy test

Answer:

Literacy requirements some states imposed as a condition of voting, generally used to disqualify black voters in the South; now illegal.

Question 4: Poll tax

Answer:

Tax required to vote; prohibited for national elections by the Twenty-Fourth Amendment (1964) and ruled unconstitutional for all elections in 1966.

Question 5: Petit jury

Answer:

A jury of 6 to 12 persons that determines guilt or innocence in a civil or criminal action.

Question 6: Due process clause

Answer:

Clause in the Fifth Amendment limiting the power of the national government; similar clause in the Fourteenth Amendment prohibiting state governments from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.

Question 7: Natural rights

Answer:

The rights of all people to dignity and worth; also called human rights.

Question 8: Fighting words

Answer:

Words that by their very nature inflict injury on those to whom they are addressed or incite them to acts of violence.

Question 9: Civil rights

Answer:

Protect individuals from discrimination based on characteristics such as race, national origin, religion, and sex; these rights are guaranteed to all citizens under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Constitution, + acts of Congress.

Question 10: De facto segregation

Answer:

Segregation resulting from economic or social conditions or personal choice.

Question 11: Establishment clause

Answer:

Clause in the First Amendment that states that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion. The Supreme Court has interpreted this to forbid governmental support to any or all religions.

Question 12: Unprotected speech

Answer:

Libel, obscenity, and fighting words which are not entitled to constitutional protection in all circumstances.

Question 13: Racial gerrymandering

Answer:

The drawing of election districts so as to ensure that members of a certain race are a minority in the district; ruled unconstitutional in 1960.

Question 14: Due process

Answer:

Established rules and regulations that restrain government officials.

Question 15: Writ of habeas corpus

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A court order requiring explanation to a judge why a prisoner is being held in custody.

Question 16: Plea bargain

Answer:

Agreement between a prosecutor and a defendant that the defendant will plead guilty to a lesser offense to avoid having to stand trial for a more serious offense

Question 17: Prior restraint

Answer:

Censorship imposed before a speech is made or a newspaper is published; usually presumed to be unconstitutional.

Question 18: White primary

Answer:

Democratic Party primary in the old "one-party South" that was limited to white people and essentially constituted an election; ruled unconstitutional in 1944.

Question 19: Commerce clause

Answer:

The clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3) that gives Congress the power to regulate all business activities that cross state lines or affect more than one state or other nations.

Question 20: Ex post facto law

Answer:

Retroactive criminal law that works to the disadvantage of a person.

Question 21: Obscenity

Answer:

Quality or state of a work that taken as a whole appeals to a prurient interest in sex by depicting sexual conduct in a patently offensive way and that lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.

Question 22: Indictment

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A formal written statement from a grand jury charging an individual with an offense; also called a true bill.

Question 23: Class action suit

Answer:

Lawsuit brought by an individual or group of people on behalf of all those similarly situated.

Question 24: Equal protection clause

Answer:

clause in the 14th amend. that forbids any state to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. This clause is the major constitutional restraint on the power of govts to discriminate against ppl because of race, sex,etc

Question 25: Jim Crow laws

Answer:

State laws formerly pervasive throughout the South requiring public facilities and accommodations to be segregated by race; ruled unconstitutional.