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| dred scottnoun | (– September 17, 1858) an enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case of 1857, popularly known as the "Dred Scott decision". |
| desegregationnoun | The act or process of eliminating segregation. |
| segregationnoun | (politics) The separation of people based upon race, sex, religion, or other identity in institutions. |
| racial segregationnoun | the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life. |
| originalismnoun | The view that a text should be interpreted according to the intent of its original authors. |
| originalistnoun | One who aims to discover how the writers of a document intended it to be interpreted, and to interpret it in that way. |
| exclusionary rulenoun | (US, law) A doctrine which requires that evidence obtained as the result of an illegal act on the part of law enforcement personnel (such as a warrantless search, or continued questioning a witness who has invoked the right of counsel) must therefore be excluded from being admitted as evidence in a trial. This rule does not apply in civil proceedings, although statutes sometime specifically provide for exclusion of such evidence. |
| caselawnoun | Alternative form of case law. [Law developed by judges through court decisions and opinions, as distinct from statute and other legislation.] |
| de jure segregationnoun | segregation that is imposed by law |
| racial discriminationnoun | any discrimination against any individual on the basis of their race, ancestry, ethnic or national origin, and/or skin color and hair texture. |
| fourteenth amendmentnoun | an amendment to the constitution of the united states adopted in 1868; extends the guarantees of the bill of rights to the states as well as to the federal government |
| roger taneynoun | united states jurist who served as chief justice of the united states supreme court; remembered for his ruling that slaves and their descendants have no rights as citizens |
| textualistnoun | A practitioner or adherent of textualism. |
| segregationistnoun | A person who supports or believes in segregation. |
| miscegenationnoun | (chiefly US) The mixing or blending of race in marriage or breeding, interracial marriage. |
| slaverynoun | An institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborers. |
| colorblindnessnoun | Alternative form of color blindness. [(medicine, ophthalmology) Any of several medical conditions in which the physical ability to see colors is impaired, especially achromatopsia or Daltonism.] |
| jim crownoun | (historical) The collective policies and customs of an era of racial oppression in the U.S., especially legalized racial persecution and segregationist practices, prevalent from the late 1800s through the 1960s until challenged by the U.S. civil rights movement. |
| textualismnoun | (law) A formalist legal theory that interprets based on the ordinary meaning of the legal text. |
| reargumentnoun | (law) The arguing of a legal case again. |
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