New EOC Units 1 - 5 Random Vocab Review

Suffrage

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• The right or privilege of voting.

• to forbid or to not allow something

• a fee someone has to pay in order to vote

26th Amendment

• an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that lowered the minimum voting age to 18

• an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that gave women the right to vote (suffrage)

• an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that defines citizenship, grants citizenship to former slaves

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habeas corpus

• a Latin term meaning “after the fact”

• the principle that the government has to provide a cause or reason for holding a person in jail

• a peaceful protest to illustrate the refusal to comply with certain laws or injustice

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unenumerated rights

• Five

• the right of a defendant to be assisted by an attorney, and if he cannot afford his own lawyer, the government must appoint one for him; established in the 6th Amendment

• The right in the 5th Amendment that protects a person from being forced to reveal to the police, prosecutor, judge, or jury any information that might subject him/her to criminal prosecution

• according to the 9th Amendment, any right that is not specifically addressed in the Constitution still may be protected (e.g., privacy)

five freedoms

• punishment prohibited by the 8th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; includes torture or other forms of punishment too severe for the crime committed

• included in the 1st Amendment and prohibits Congress from establishing a religion, and from interfering with freedom of religious exercise, press, speech, assembly, or petition

• to house someone

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Constitution

• the basic principles and laws of a nation or state that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people in it

• powers that are not granted to the national government that belong to (are reserved for) the states and the people, see Tenth Amendment

• something by which a person is bound or obliged to do certain things, and which arises out of a sense of duty or results from custom, law, etc.

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concurrent powers

• the government of a municipality (city) or county

• powers shared by the national, state, and/or local government

• U.S. Supreme Court case that limited executive privilege

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self-incrimination

• the separation of people, such as segregation based on race

• the right in the 5th Amendment that protects a person from being forced to reveal information that might subject him or her to criminal prosecution

• the power of the judicial branch to review the actions of the executive and legislative branches and determine whether or not they are unconstitutional

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Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier

• U.S. Supreme Court case that determined that the 1st Amendment does not protect all types of student speech in school

• U.S. Supreme Court case that upheld the 6th Amendment right that all defendants must be appointed a lawyer if they cannot afford their own attorney

• U.S. Supreme Court case that established judicial review

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Brown v. Board of Education

• the section of the 14th Amendment that says that states must apply the law equally and cannot discriminate against citizens or groups of citizens

• U.S. Supreme Court case that determined that “separate but equal” segregation was not equal in public education

• U.S. Supreme Court decision in which the Court ruled that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United States and therefore did not have the right to sue in federal court

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