EOC Reporting Category 2 Vocabulary

any person, not a citizen or national of a

country

a person who comes to a country to live

permanently

the principle that a person's nationality at birth is the same as that of his or her biological mother

the principle that a person's nationality at birth is determined by the territory within which he or she was born

the process by which an immigrant becomes a citizen

the prosecution of a defendant for a criminal

offense for which he has already been tried;

prohibited in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S.

Constitution

a system of justice according to established

rules and principles; based on the principle in

the Fifth Amendment that a person cannot be

deprived of life, liberty, or property without

appropriate legal procedures and protections

a federal law that prohibits employment

discrimination based on race, sex, color,

religion, or national origin

the right in the Fifth Amendment that protects a person from being forced to reveal to the police, prosecutor, judge, or jury any information that might subject him or her to criminal prosecution

an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that defines citizenship, grants citizenship to former slaves and defines voters as males at least 21 year of age