Legislative Attempts Toensure That Convicts Will Serve Approximately the Terms

question 18

Short Answer

Legislative attempts toensure that convicts will serve approximately the terms towhich they are initially sentenced are known as ____________________________________. ​

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Definitions:

Free Soil Party

A political party active in the 1840s and 1850s in the United States, which opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories.

Slavery

A system in which individuals are owned by others, deprived of personal freedom, and compelled to work without remuneration.

Dred Scott Decision

An 1857 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that African Americans, whether enslaved or free, could not be American citizens and therefore had no standing to sue in federal court.