POLI 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Literacy Test, Twenty-Fourth Amendment Of The Constitution Of India, White Primaries
Civil Rights
How much freedom are you willing to trade for equality?
Civil Rights and Equal Treatment Under the Law
-Events in Ferguson and elsewhere show that civil rights issues
for African-Americans are still pressing. Black Lives Matter
movement.
-Discrimination against Muslims, Sikhs, and persons of Arab and
south-Asian descent in the aftermath of 9/11
-LGBT rights are also being pressed for marriage equality and
transgender rights
-Women’s rights involving issues of harassment
What are Civil Rights?
-Civil Rights are powers or privileges guaranteed to individuals
and protected from arbitrary removal at the hands of
government.
Conceptions of Equality
-Americans want equality, but they differ on the extent to which
government should provide it.
-Most Americans support
equality of opportunity,
which gives
individuals the same opportunities.
-Americans are less committed to
equality of outcome,
which
entails greater uniformity of social, economic, and political
power.
-The civil rights movement in the U.S. was based on the idea
that social and political equality should be attainable for all
people.
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Document Summary
Civil rights and equal treatment under the law. Events in ferguson and elsewhere show that civil rights issues for african-americans are still pressing. Discrimination against muslims, sikhs, and persons of arab and south-asian descent in the aftermath of 9/11. Lgbt rights are also being pressed for marriage equality and transgender rights. Civil rights are powers or privileges guaranteed to individuals and protected from arbitrary removal at the hands of government. Americans want equality, but they differ on the extent to which government should provide it. Most americans support equality of opportunity, which gives individuals the same opportunities. Americans are less committed to equality of outcome, which entails greater uniformity of social, economic, and political power. The civil rights movement in the u. s. was based on the idea that social and political equality should be attainable for all people. The civil war amendments were adopted to provide african-
