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Definition of Scopes trial
1. Noun. A highly publicized trial in 1925 when John Thomas Scopes violated a Tennessee state law by teaching evolution in high school; Scopes was prosecuted by William Jennings Bryan and defended by Clarence Darrow; Scopes was convicted but the verdict was later reversed.
Generic synonyms: Trial
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law, Evolution, Organic Evolution, Phylogenesis, Phylogeny
Category relationships: Jurisprudence, Law, Evolution, Organic Evolution, Phylogenesis, Phylogeny
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