Without civil rights there is no democracy because inequality splits a nation. In a democracy all people are suppose to get a say, same rights and same freedom, which is what civil right promote. Two supreme court cases proves this. Texas v Johnson was a supreme court case about a man who burned a flag and was taken to jail. The supreme court said Johnson was protected under the first amendment because it was freedom of speech. Brown v Board of Education was also a supreme court case. It was about getting black kids to go to the same school as white kids, which was granted because the court said separate but equal was unconstitutional in the context of public
Without civil rights there is no democracy because inequality splits a nation. In a democracy all people are suppose to get a say, same rights and same freedom, which is what civil right promote. Two supreme court cases proves this. Texas v Johnson was a supreme court case about a man who burned a flag and was taken to jail. The supreme court said Johnson was protected under the first amendment because it was freedom of speech. Brown v Board of Education was also a supreme court case. It was about getting black kids to go to the same school as white kids, which was granted because the court said separate but equal was unconstitutional in the context of public