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Habeas corpus
- a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court
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establishment clause
- the clause in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution that prohibits the establishment of religion by Congress.
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clear and present danger (test)
- this test focused on the circumstances under which language was used. if there were no threatening circumstances, the language in question would be protected, and Congress could not regulate it
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political correctness
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the avoidance, often considered as taken to extremes, of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people who are socia
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exclusionary rule
- a law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial.
- provisions of 1st amendment
- congress shall make no law respecting an establisment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press,; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redres
- provisions of 4th amendment
- The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, paper, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or
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differnece between civil rights
civil liberties
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the rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality.
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- bill of rights
- 1st 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution
- ex post facto laws
- laws that make an action a crime after the fact, even though it was carried out while it was legal