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RIGHT TO SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL BY JURY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does right to speedy and public trial by jury mean?
• RIGHT TO SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL BY JURY (noun)
The noun RIGHT TO SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL BY JURY has 1 sense:
1. a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution
Familiarity information: RIGHT TO SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL BY JURY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• RIGHT TO SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL BY JURY (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("right to speedy and public trial by jury" is a kind of...):
civil right (right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
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