PUP-3002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Voting Rights Act Of 1965, Aisle
5 Apr 2018
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Rights are contracts that require others to either do something or not do something. Civil rights are rights that ensure fairness and prevent discrimination for a specific segment of the population. Civil rights are given and regulated by the government. May allow execution for some crimes to protect the common good. Civil war and the 14th, 15th, and 16th amendments ended slavery and made blacks citizens. But laws were passed to limit those rights, led to new laws, like the voting rights act in 1965 that ended unequal voter registration. Newer laws, like shelby county, al v. holder (2013) weakened the preclearance protection of that law. New administration means that understandings of rights will change. Often a struggle with legislative change affecting laws, etc. Often the expansion of rights reduces the rights of other groups. When granting a civil right to a portion of the population, it restricts how other members of the population can behave.
