POL 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Literacy Test, Executive Order 9981, Desegregation
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Civil liberies (aka civil rights , privileges and immuniies ): rights that individuals have against a government. Only a government can violate one"s civil liberies. Civil rights: rights needed to ensure free and equal ciizenship. These rights protect individuals from unequal treatment based upon certain characterisics. (this is a new understanding of the term. ) Poliical rights: rights to govern and paricipate as a ciizen. 14 th amendment (december 6, 1865) th amendment (poliical background) The slave power and the black codes (1866): south had a long tradiion of suppressing civil liberies. 39th congress (1865-1867) refused to seat members from confederate states unil 1868, and some unil 1870. Reconstrucion acts: congress imposed military government on the southern states and raifying the 14th amendment was required for their readmission to the union. th amendment (legal background) Answer: (no: blacks are not ciizens and could never be. th amendment (july 9, 1868)
