Essay On Civil Rights And Civil Liberties

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1 Khand Diya Professor Sharifian GOVT-2305-73431 11th Feb 2018 Civil rights and Civil Liberties “It is a fair summary of constitutional history that the landmarks of our liberties have often been forged in cases involving not very nice people” (www.ushistory.org). However, the role that they played are the result of many civil rights and civil liberties that Americans enjoy today. 2 Civil rights and civil liberties are kind a same but holding a different values and terms. Both of these words come across as being the declaration of Independence and the bill of rights. But, both refer to the different kinds of rights and guarantees. 3 Civil liberties are protections against governmental actions. For example, every citizen has his or her own right to enjoy and choose whatever religion they want. For this Government cannot intervene the freedom of religion that one wants to enjoy. 4 On contrary, civil rights are the positive actions that government should take to maintain harmony and equality among all the citizens. Since, the long run of civil rights has always been associated with the freedom of African American, immigrants and

While nationalizing the bill of rights for civil liberties, for example in Barron vs Baltimore (1833) the supreme court made the principle of “dual citizenship” holding that a person was the citizen of both the national and state government (W.W.Norton & Company, Inc). This clearly means that one can be protected by national government as being the citizen, but the state government has the power to do anything because the bill of rights was not applied to the state government. Where as in terms of civil rights, the passage of major civil rights though it was put forward long ago but still to overcome the past discrimination and make stability in terms of greater area of diversity, Court and the government is still working for