Term
| Americans with Disabilities Act |
|
Definition
| (ADA) is a law that was enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1990, this makes civil rights protections to individuals with disabilities to make sure that no qualified person with any kind of disability is turned down for a job and guarantees equal opportunity for individuals with disabilities in public accommodations and State and local government services. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Latin term meaning, friend of the court, a brief presented by someone interested in influencing the outcome of a lawsuit but this party is not involved in this lawsuit but is allowed by the court to advise it on a matter of law directly affecting the lawsuit. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| commonly called appeals court, the part of the judicial system whose jurisdiction is responsible for hearing and reviewing appeals from legal cases that have already been heard in a trial-level or other lower courts their decisions are presented at the state and or federal levels of the court system for appeals. The highest appeal court is the Supreme Court. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
A legislative act pronouncing a person or group guilty of treason or felony without judicial trial and subjecting that person or group to capital punishment which includes any legislative act which takes away the life, liberty or property of the individuals or group that was convicted of the crimes. Such acts are prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Aka, open primary, is a system used for selecting political party candidates in a primary election in which the names of all the candidates for all the parties are on one ballot making voters pick one candidate for each office without regard to party lines. Subject to manipulation, as supporters of one party can attempt to obtain the nomination of the weakest candidate of an opposing party by voting in their opponents' primary. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
an unrestricted federal grant from a central government that is given to
a local authority to help to pay for the public services like provides, such as health, education, and housing. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| officially the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993, is a federal statute signed into law by President Bill Clinton, which stablished a national five-day waiting period for retail handgun purchases due to the attempted assassinate of President Ronald Reagan in 1981. The waiting period was intended to provide time for police to undertake criminal-records checks of prospective handgun purchasers |
|
|
Term
| Brown vs. Board of education |
|
Definition
| The U.S. Supreme Court case of Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was acase regarding school desegregation. the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional and is generally viewed as the turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. This ended the legal basis for racial segregation in public schools and discriminatory laws and practices imposed by federal, state, and local governments. Segregation is prohibitedby the Constitution as inherently unequal. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896 which allowed state-sponsored segregation. |
|
|
Term
| Budget and impoundment control act |
|
Definition
Titles I through IX of the law are also known as the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Budget Impoundment and Control Act is a U.S federal statute. The Act allowed Congress to vote on budget procedures to be followed in the U.S. for whole units of spending. Congress could vote for or against the budget authorizing spending for an entire department. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A closed meeting of the members of a legislative body belonging to the same political party to select candidates or decide policy |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| A parliamentary procedure for ending a debate in a legislative body and an immediate vote is taken on the matter under discussion |
|
|
Term
| Congressional Budget Office |
|
Definition
aka CBO, is a federal agency within the legislative branch of the United States government that is responsible for composing and reporting data related to the federal budget for members of Congress and was created in the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Document signed Sept. 27, 1994, on the Capitol steps in Washington, D.C. which was introduced six weeks before the 1994 Congressional election. It was created by members of the Republican minority before the Republican Party gained control of Congress. The Contract outlined legislation to be enacted by the House of Representatives within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress and the actions the Republicans promised to take if they became the majority party in the United States House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| is a Latin expression that means concerning fact, segregation, a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups, (especially in schools) that happens in fact, although not required by law |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Latin for lawful, racial segregation that occurs because of laws or administrative decisions by public agencies. (Laws that require different races attend different school) |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
| Situations in which liabilities exceed assets, expenditures exceed income, imports exceed exports, or losses exceed profits. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
Latin for "after the fact," generally refers to laws or other mandates that are passed to restrict behavior that was, when practiced, entirely legal or increases the penalty for a crime after it is committed. Such laws are specifically prohibited by the U. S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
is a supreme court-made law that prohibits the use of illegally obtained evidence in a criminal trial. The exclusionary rule applies by virtue of the Fourth Amendment. Exclusionary law has been in existence since the early 1900s. Before any evidence was admissible in a criminal trial if the judge found the evidence to be relevant even if evidence had been seized was not an issue. |
|
|
Term
|
Definition
an order issued by the president or Governor to an executive branch of the government usually based on existing statutory powers, and requiring no action by the Congress or state legislature. |
|
|
