Vocab

Precedent

A case used as an authority for deciding subsequent cases involving identical or similar facts, or similar legal issues

Landmark

Landmark changes the course of human history and sets a precedent, the first of its kind

Protected Speech

Speech protected by the 1st amendment

Double Entendre

Joke that has a double meaning

Obscenity

Over 18 material, sexual references

Defamation

Saying something that is a lie that damages someone’s character

Slander

Spoken lies

Lible

Printed Lies

Substantial Disruption

A significant disruption or interruption that interrupts the normal course of events

Bong

A device sued to smoke

“standing”

Ability to bring your defendants/bring your arguments

jus sanguinis

Law of the blood. Your citizenship is determined by the citizenship of your parents

jus soli

Law of the soil or land. Your citizenship is determined by where you were born

Jim Crow Laws

Sets of laws designed to create facilities for people whites only and everyone else, result of Plessy v. Ferguson

Reconstruction Amendments

13th, 14th, and 15th

Little Rock Nine

First black children to attend a white school: Little Rock central High

Republic

Type of democracy where citizens elect someone else to present them in the government

Compulsory

Required by law or rule; obligitary

Compelled Speech

When the government forces someone to speak

Non obtrusive jewelry

Jewelry that is not disruptive

Proselytizing

Trying to convert someone to their religion

Sufferage

The right to vote

Anti-Trust Laws

regulations that encourage competition by limiting the market power of any particular firm

To coin something

To invent or devise; he coined the term “desktop publishing”