Scopes trial (n)

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def a highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school
def Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow
def Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed
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Hypernym trial
Domain of synset - TOPIC law, jurisprudence; evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
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Hyponym trial
Member of this domain - TOPIC law, jurisprudence; evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis

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