Glossary

Infrastructure

The physical structures, roads, needed to operate a society.

Infrastructure

The basic transportation and communication systems for a country or region.

Infringe

to violate or break something

Inheritance

Assets such as money or property that a person often leaves their family members.

Injunction

a judicial order that restrains a person from beginning or continuing an action threatening or invading the legal right of another.

Invalid

A person made weak by illness.

Jim Crow laws

refer to the legalized segregation of the Black population of the United States in schools, restaurants, public transportation, and other institutions or facilities, and the denial of the right to vote, after the Civil War up until the 1960s.

judge advocate

officers serving in the United States Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marine Corps, and Navy who act as military lawyers and legal advisors to senior military officials.

Judicial restraint

the idea that judges should be reluctant to declare legislative enactments unconstitutional unless the conflict between the law and the Constitution is obvious.

Judicial Review

The authority of the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the acts of the legislative and executive branches.