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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”
