WordNet: Scopes trial
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
- domain: topic jurisprudence, law
- domain: topic evolution, organic evolution, phylogenesis, phylogeny
- hypernym trial
Scopes trial
- (suomi) Scopesin oikeudenkäynti (synonyymi)