POLI 2051 Lecture : Lecture Ch15 16

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15 Mar 2019
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Civil liberties: the bill of rights in context. The idea of a national or federal bill of rights had individual. - they take the form of negative restraints on government. Examples: freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, etc. (bill of rights) Civil rights - they declare what government must do or provide. - it is generally a claim upon state action, usuallythe hve nots in society examples: right to vote, right to trial. America politics for the first 125 years after it was adapted. The 14th amendment (1868) seemed to change all this. It was one of the civil war amendments designed to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks. The result was that people had some protection: the nationalization of the bill of rights: gitlow v. New york (1925): gitlow was a publisher, and offended the protection of the government. How did the bill of rights come to be applied to.

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