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Miranda v. Arizona (Miranda Rights)

Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, June 13, 1966. http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0384_0436_ZS.html
defendant, custody, detective, prosecute, attorney, interrogation, elicit, admission, convict, more...
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The Bill of Rights

Learn these 50 words to better understand the first ten amendments of the U.S. Constitution.
amendment, congress, prohibit, abridge, assemble, petition, redress, grievance, militia, more...
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10 Words to Learn from the Preamble to the US Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the...
justice, insure, tranquility, promote, welfare, secure, liberty, posterity, ordain, more...
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The Top 90 Terms to help you Comprehend the Declaration of Independence

unalienable, constrain, usurpation, King of Great Britain, abolish, consanguinity, suspend, impel, abdicate, more...
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The Top 20 Terms Students Need to Know Before they Read the Bill of Rights

Try previewing these twenty terms with your students BEFORE they read the Bill of Rights. Then, when they read the actual document, they will be twenty steps ahead.
compulsory process, cruel and unusual punishment, probable cause, due process of law, abridge, prohibit, freedom of speech, common law, private property, more...
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Social Studies vocabulary from the majority opinion, Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

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equal protection of the laws, Fourteenth Amendment, segregate, segregation, legal representative, rural area, plaintiff, public school, class action, more...
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Martin Luther King Letter From Birmingham Jail

segregate, tension, categorize, scintillate, structured, categorized, precipitate, humiliate, creatively, more...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Self-Reliance"

"Self-Reliance," from <i>Essays: First Series</i> by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1841). http://www.emersoncentral.com/selfreliance.htm
importune, nonconformist, permeable, domesticate, reliance, interloper, maturation, dishearten, asinine, more...
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