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FREEDOM FROM DOUBLE JEOPARDY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("freedom from double jeopardy" 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)