Civil Liberties Vs Civil Rights

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2. The definition of civil rights as stated in the textbook is “set of rights centered around the concept of equal treatment that the government is obliged to protect” (Geer, Schiller, Herrera, Segal 138). Civil liberties are “unalienable rights that the government has no authority to regulate” (Geer, Schiller, Herrera, Segal 102). The difference is civil rights is without discrimination to any group to civil rights while civil liberties block the government from interfering with natural rights. An example of civil right is freedom of speech where the government is obligated to protect through the first amendment in the bill of rights. There are cases of civil liberties where the guilty is unaware of their rights after the cases. Such as the