PS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Due Process, Civil Liberties

• School: Marymount
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 106
• Professor: Rosemary Nossiff

Document Summary

Civil liberties - protection from government interference; in the bill of rights (ex: right to privacy, no search w/o warrant) Civil rights - protection by government; the government will protect your rights; they"re on you"re side. Due process - certain laws have to be followed the proper way things happen. The government can"t have a law that takes your life, liberty, and property w/o a really, really good reason. From roughly 1800 - 1900, the bill of rights only applied on the federal level. Because at this time, the people had way more faith and trust in the state opposed to the federal government. 1877 - the supreme court said the bill of rights applied to the state governments. From 1897 - 1931, the elite thrived as federalism thrived in america. Power shifted from the state to the federal government. 1934 - freedom of religion goes across class.