Ch 14 Flashcards

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Resident alien

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Person esatblished residency but from other nation

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Alien

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A perosn who lives in a country but not citizen

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Nonresident alien

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A person from A foreign countryWho expects to stay in the US for short period of time

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Enemy alien

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A citizen of the nation with which the US is at war

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Illegal alien

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Person with no legal permission to be in the country

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Amnesty

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The group party and two individuals were an offense against the government

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Private law

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A law that applies to one person

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Naturalize Asian

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Legal process of citizenship

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Jus soli

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Law of the soil the principle that grants citizenship to nearly all people born in a country

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Jus sanguinist

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Lots of blood principle that Grant citizenship on the basis of the citizenship of one parent

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Collective naturalize Asian

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Process by which a group of people become US citizens to the act of Congress

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Expatriation

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Giving up citizenship to live in another country

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De naturalization

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The loss of citizenship through fraud or deception during naturalization process

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Exclusionary rule

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Law stating that any illegally obtained evidence cannot be used in a federal court

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Self-incrimination

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Testifying against oneself

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Double Jeopardy

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The retrial of a person who is acquitted in the previous trial for the same crime

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Rational basis test

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Used by court to determine whether a state law is reasonably related to an acceptable goal
of the government

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Suspect classification

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Made on the basis of race or national origin subject to strict judicial scrutiny

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Fundamental rights

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Basis right of the American system or that is indispensable in the justice system

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Discrimination

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The unfair treatment of individuals based on solely on the race gender ethnic group age disabilities or religion

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Jim Crow laws

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Laws inquiring racial segregation in places like buses schools and hotels

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Separation but equal

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The policy which is held that if the syllabus for different races were equal they could be separate

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Transcript

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The summary record

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Affirmative action

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Government policies that award jobs , government contracts, promotions, omissions to schools, other benefits. To minorities and women in order to make up for past discrimination.

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Security classification system –

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Provision that info on the government activities related to national security inferencing policy may be kept secret