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What are immigrants?
These are aliens legally admitted as permanent residents.
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What is kidnapping and rape?
It was the crime that Ernesto Miranda was initially arrested for.
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What are the Bill of Rights?
These were ratified by the states and became part of the Constitution on December 15, 1791.
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What is a precinct?
This is the smallest unit of election administrations.
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What is Congress?
They are in charge of the Inferior Courts.
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What is a refugee?
This is a person who has come to American and is seeking protection from war, persecution or some other danger.
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What is Plessy versus Ferguson?
The case that allowed for separate but equal facilities in railroad coaches.
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What is the 1st amendment?
This guarantees to each person the right to believe whatever he or she chooses to believe in matters of religion.
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What is a defendant?
It is the person who the complaint is made to in a court of law.
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What is constitutional and federal?
These are the two types of federal courts.
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What is de jure segregation?
This is segregation authorized by law.
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What is Brown versus the Board of Education?
The 1954v case that ended segregation in public education.
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What is Roe Versus Wade?
This court case involved the Supreme Court and struck down a Texas law that made abortion a crime except when necessary to save the life of the mother.
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What is heterogenis?
This term is compounded of two Greek words, which mean race, family, or kind.
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What are constitutional courts?
This court can also be called regular courts or article III courts.
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What is denaturalization?
The process by which an alien that had become a citizen involuntarily loses their citizenship.
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What is Executive Privilege?
This authority was first recognized by the Supreme Court in the historic case US versus Nixon in 1974.
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What is the alien and sedition act?
These acts gave the president the power to deport undesirable aliens and made any false, slanderous, malicious criticism of the government a crime.
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What is sales tax?
This is a tax placed on various commodities; the purchaser pays it.
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What are special courts?
These courts can also be called legislative courts.
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What is 14th amendment?
This amendment is called the 'due process' clause. Also sometimes referred to as the equal protection clause.
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What is Gideon versus Wainwright?
In this court case, the Court held that an attorney must be furnished to a defendant who cannot afford one.
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What is the Lemon Test?
It is the method by which the courts decide whether state aid to parochial schools is constitutional.
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Who is Barack H. Obama?
Who will be the the President in 2016?
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What is jurisdiction?
This is the authority of the court to hear a case.
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