Vocab Unit 3

What is Due Process?

• Government must act fairly and in accord with established rules in everything it does

• You have the right to a trial by jury

• You have the right to a fair and speedy trial

What is Double Jeopardy?

• The second half of the game show

• Part of the 5th amendment which states a person cannot be tried for the same crime twice

• When someone is tried for one crime and then additional charges are added on

In any criminal case no person can be compelled to be a witness against themselves

• Self preservation

• 4th amendment

• Self-incrimination

Bill of Rights

• First 10 amendments of the Constitution

• All the amendments of the Constitution

• Rights spelled out in the Declaration of Independence

What is a Grand Jury?

• The name given to a jury hearing a supreme court case

• Formal device by which a person can be accused of a serious crime

• A jury that decides a verdict

What are Civil Rights?

• Guarantees safety for people, opinions, and property from arbitrary acts

• Rights people have during civil court cases

• Positive acts of government that seek to make constitutional guarantees a reality for all people

Evidence gained as the result of an illegal act by police cannot be used against the person from who it was seized

• Exclusionary rule

• 6th amendment

• A civil liberty

A court order which prevents unjust arrests and imprisonments

• 8th amendment

• Writ of Habeas Corpus

• A civil right

What is a Bill of Attainder?

• A law used to override the Constitution

• A constitutional amendment

• A legislative act that inflicts punishment without a court trial

What is Ex Post Facto law?

• A law applied to an act committed before its passage

• An illegal way police enforce laws

• Another term for martial law