POLS 206 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: September 11 Attacks, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Felix Frankfurter
29 Sep 2017
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Dc, ban on the possession of handguns and for the first time held that the 2nd amendment protects an individual"s right to possess a firearm for lawful purposes, such as self-defense. Hardwick, which had allowed states to make engaging in homosexual sex a crime: americans will give up their rights to privacy in exchange for security. Top 10 takeaway points: civil liberties are the freedoms enjoyed by individuals in a democratic society. They constitute the choices individuals are free to make with little or no interference from governmental authority: civil liberties are not absolute, and there remains a need for constraints on them to preserve social order. Balancing liberty and authority is difficult, and finding an appropriate balance is one of the central dilemmas of democratic societies: the bill of rights originally applied only to the federal government, not to state governments.
