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Haeun Lim Professor Sharifian GOVT 2305-73059 9 February 2018 Civil Rights versus Civil Liberties According to Stone (2014), there is a significant difference between civil rights and civil rights. For example, civil rights refer to the rights bestowed upon individuals by the law. It prevents any acts associated with discrimination of personages based on their unique traits. The uniqueness of people that may be used as a basis for discrimination may involve their racial backgrounds, religious affiliations as well as gender (Stone, 2014). However, civil liberties refer to the fundamental limits. The government prevents people from engaging in activities that may be subject to interference with the freedom of an individual.
An example of civil liberty involves the right bestowed upon people to express themselves. According to Stone (2014), the Fourth Amendment of the United States constitution promotes civil liberties by ensuring that people’s homes and property are not to be infringed upon by the law enforcement personnel through unwarranted searches. As such, it is mandatory for law enforcement personages to produce search warrants before searching an individual’s residence (Steinberg, 2013).
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the United States (2001) is an example of a court ruling. The supreme Court promoted civil liberty. It decided that the using of heat seeking equipment to search a house without the court order is in contravention of the Fourth Amendment (The Leadership Conference, 2016). The Supreme Court ruled in Florida v. Jardines case in favor of Jardines that it was unlawful that a dog had been used to search his home (Steinberg, 2013). Also, the use of drug-sniffing dogs without providing a search warrant also goes against the stipulations in the civil rights. The suspects must be known that a tracking device has been put and also produce a search