POL 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Grand Jury, Public Trial, Enumerated Powers
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Liberty (libertas = freedom): the ability to do as one chooses. Civil liberies: civil liberies (aka civil rights , privileges and immuniies ): rights that individuals have against a government. Only a government can violate one"s civil liberies. There is a tension between liberty and order. The bill of rights: the irst ten amendments to the us consituion. They prohibit the federal government from violaing certain civil liberies. There is a long tradiion in briish and american history unil 1789 including protecions of civil liberies (ex: magna carta, state consituions) The framers did not include a bill of rights, parially, for very human reasons exhausion. There were more principled reasons for the lace of a declaraion of rights as well. All others remain with the people or the states. The prejudices of the people would limit the extent of any writen rights. The consituion doesn"t list all of the powers that the government could have.
