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Unit 5 Term List – Civil Liberties
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*Clear and present danger
*Cruel and unusual punishment
*Double jeopardy
*Due process of law
*Equal protection of the law
*Establishment clause
*Exclusionary rule
*Freedom of assembly
*Freedom of religion
*Freedom of speech
*Freedom of the press
*Freedom to petition
*Free-exercise clause
*Good-faith exception
*Implied right to privacy
*Inevitable discovery rule
*Libel
*Prior restraint
*Probable cause
*Right to trial by jury
*Rights of the accused
*Selective incorporation
*Slander
*Symbolic speech
*Unreasonable search and seizure
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Cruel and
unusual
punishment
Double
jeopardy
Due process of
law
Equal
protection of
the law
Exclusionary
rule
Freedom of
assembly
Freedom of
religion
Freedom of
speech
Freedom to
petition
Free-exercise
clause
Right to
privacy
Inevitable
discovery rule
Libel
Prior restraint
Probable cause
Right to trial
by jury
Rights of the
accused
Selective
incorporation
Slander
Symbolic
speech
Unreasonable
search and
seizure
Good-faith
exception
Clear and
present danger
Establishment
clause
Freedom of the
press
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A standard of
equal
treatment that
must be
observed by the
government
1st Amendment
protection –
people are free
to voice their
opinions, even
if unpopular
Evidence that
would have
‘inevitably’
been found can
be used in court
These rights are
found in
Amendments
4-8 of the Bill
of Rights
An error in
gathering
evidence
sufficiently
minor that it
may be used in
a trial
Denies the govt
Being tried
The 8th
Speech or
the right,
twice for the
Amendment
writings that
without due
same crime –
prohibits this
the govt may
process, to
this is
type of
prohibit or
deprive people
prohibited by
punishment
restrict because
of life, liberty,
the 5th
ordered by the they are seen as
or property
Amendment
government
dangerous
st
st
1 Amendment 1 Amendment
First
protection –
protection to be
Improperly
Amendment
people are free
able to
gathered
ban on laws
to exercise their
assemble and
evidence may
“respecting an
religion & govt
associate with not be used in a
establishment
can’t establish
others of your
criminal trial
of religion”
a religion
choice
People have a
1st Amendment
right to privacy
requirement
in their homes that law cannot
and with their
prevent free
personal
exercise of
belongings
religion
Amendment
right to ask the
government to
change things
6th Amendment
protection –
people can be
tried by an
impartial jury
of their peers
Reasonable
cause for
issuing a search
warrant or
making an
arrest
Censorship of a
publication –
rules telling a
newspaper in
advance what
it can publish
An act that
conveys a
political
message
The action or
crime of
making a false
spoken
statement
damaging to
another person
4th Amendment
protects
against this –
govt must have
search warrant
issued by judge
to search us
1st
First
Amendment
protection for
the press/media
to report and
publish info
Writing that
defames the
character and
injures another
person
Applying the
Bill of Rights to
the states and
their issues