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50 Cards in this Set
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Resident, non-resident, enemy, or illegal |
Aliens |
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One who flees to escape persecution |
Refugee |
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Controls immigration policy |
Congress |
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Restricted immagration |
Johnson Act of 1924 |
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Abolished national origins quotas |
Immagration Reform Act of 1965 |
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Immigrants are these until they become naturalized citizens. |
Resident aliens |
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This term refers to a person living in the United States who is a citizen of a nation at war with the United States. |
Enemy alien |
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The state with the largest number of immigrants is |
California |
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This law provided a way for illegal immagrants to become permanent residents |
Immigration Reforms and Control Act of 1986 |
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By 1990, 85 percent of immigrants who came to the United States came from |
Asia and Latin America |
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Origin of U.S government power |
The people |
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Dred Scott decision |
Chief Justice Roger Taney |
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Law of the soil |
jus soli |
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Law of blood |
jus sanguinis |
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Key step in naturalization process |
Hearing |
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This legal process grants a person the rights and privileges of a citizen |
Naturalization |
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This makes state citizenship an automatic result of national citizenship |
Fourteenth Amendment |
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Through this process, a group of people become naturalized citizens |
Collective naturalization |
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Giving up one's citizenship and living in another country is called |
Expatriation |
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The loss of citizenship through fraud or deception during the naturalization process is called |
Denaturalization |
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"Unreasonable search and seizure" |
Fourteenth Amendment |
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Major crime |
Felony |
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An attorney |
Counsel |
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Won the right to a lawyer |
Clarence Earl Gideon |
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"Witness against oneself" |
Self-incrimination |
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This rule holds that illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in a federal court |
Exclusionary rule |
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To conduct wiretapping, eavesdropping, and electronic surveillances, you need |
A warrant |
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This principle means a person may not be tried twice for the same crime |
Double jeopardy |
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This forbids cruel and unusual punishment |
Eighth Amendment |
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In Gregg v. Georgia, the Court ruled that under adequate guidelines this is acceptable |
The death penalty |
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Right to travel freely between states |
Fundamental right |
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Unequal treatment among ethnic groups |
Racial discrimination |
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Separation of people from larger groups |
Segregation |
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Form of protest used in the civil rights movement |
Sit-ins |
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Civil rights leader |
Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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This means that the Court will uphold a state law that is based on reasonably related classification |
Rational basis test |
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This classification is made on the basis of race or national origin. |
Suspect classification |
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These rights go to the heart of the United States system |
Fundamental rights |
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Laws that classify people unreasonably are said to |
Be discriminatory |
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This overruled the separate but equal doctrine |
Brown v. Board of Education |
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Gave women the right to vote |
Nineteenth Amendment |
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Secret government documents |
Security classification system |
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Opened meetings to the public |
Sunshine Act |
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Summary report |
Transcript |
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Bill of Rights and Fourteenth Amendment |
Right to privacy |
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When one qualified individual loses out to another because of race, ethnicity, or gender, it may be because of |
Affirmative Action Policies |
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The Reed decision created a new standard for judging constitutionality in these types of discrimination cases |
Gender |
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This act requires federal agencies to provide citizens access to public records |
Freedom of Information Act |
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This act allows your parents to check your school records |
Family Education Rights and Privacy Act |
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To protect consumers, a growing number of lawmakers believe this needs to be rewritten |
Fair Credit Reporting Act |
