POLI SCI 104 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Double Jeopardy, Political Correctness, Eminent Domain
19 Feb 2018
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Concepts define certain spheres of activity, such as speech or worship. Government"s authority to interfere with individual conduct is limited. Civil rights are the rules determining who may participate or be represented in collective decision-making processes, as well as regulating the ways in which government can and cannot treat its citizens. Civil liberties limit collective action by restricting the government"s jurisdiction- protections of citizens from improper government action. Civil rights, in contrast, regulate collective action by establishing decision rules for the government"s conduct. Jurisdiction derived from article iii, statutes, and prior court decisions. Use of history is called precedent, since job of court is to apply rather than make the law. American"s most important civil rights are found in the constitution"s bill of. Rights, which might have been called the bill of liberties. Originally, limits applied only to the federal government, took a series of. Supreme court decisions in the 20th century to apply these to the states as well.
