23 Civil Rights & Liberties

______________________ are limitations placed on the government. Basically, they are things the government can't do that might interfere with your personal freedom.

• Civil Liberties

• Civil Rights

• Procedural Rights

• Economic Liberties

______ are curbs on the power of majorities to make decisions that would benefit some at the expense of others. Basically, ...guarantees of equal citizenship, and they mean that citizens are protected from discrimination by majorities.

• Civil Rights

• Civil Liberties

• Procedural Rights

• Economic Liberties

________ are limits on what the government can do. For example, the First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law establishing religion.

• Substantive Liberties

• Procedural Liberties

• Economic Liberties

• Political Liberties

_________ are limits on how the government can act. For example, in America in courtroom dramas, there is a presumption that someone is innocent until proven guilty.

• Procedural Liberties

• Circumstantial Liberties

• Enumerated Rights

• Expressive Rights

Civil liberties are contained in the "____________," which is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

• Bill of Rights

• Supremacy Clause

• Elastic Clause

• Declaration of Independence

The ______________ suggests that the list of liberties and/or rights in the other amendments aren't the only rights guaranteed to the people.

• Ninth Amendment

• Declaration of Independence

• Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Elastic Clause

Since civil liberties did not Constitutionally apply to state law, the _____________ and the Supreme Court ruled that states can't deny equal protection, civil rights, or due process to any citizen.

• Fourteenth Amendment

• Tenth Amendment

• Supremacy Clause

• Civil Rights Act