Civil liberties

stark reality of our seat-belt laws that are in effect today. Choosing to wear a seat belt is a wise decision to make, however, passing a law to make the wearing of seat belts mandatory and punishable by law is a glaring infringement upon our civil liberties. In 1985 seat-belt laws began passing through State Legislature despite a long history of public resistance to such laws. The facts behind how this came to be are quite fascinating. Automakers were bitterly opposed to…

What is Freedom? “We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” (King 3). In this quote, Dr. King addresses one must fight back for what is right. If your civil liberties are provoked, you must rise too top the oppressor. This a strong quote from Dr. King which I openly agree with because it shows the amount of honor in his words to revolt against the government. Dr. King was flouted by many because he…

The desire for political and civil rights have driven numerous societies to revolt against an oppressive rule in hopes to achieve a more democratic lifestyle. Thus, when Middle Easterners began becoming more fed up with oppressive regimes, the desire for a revolution emerged. The political outcomes of the Arab Spring uprisings were different for each country involved. While civil war arose in some countries, other countries did not have substantial revolts; there were even states that became so…

Stanley Clark Dr. Newman Freedom and Authority 2/28/16 According to Rousseau’s argument about the corruption of the sciences and the loss of virtue in mankind his view of what freedom is stretches beyond the principles of civil liberties. He has an understanding that, in order to truly be free, one must find an inner freedom that can’t be given to you through the government. This coincides with positive freedom’s essential trait of self-mastery. Therefore, I will discuss how Rousseau’s…

The issue of invasion of privacy, especially in the different methods employed to ensure safety, affect innocent people and are sometimes not even effective. This issue is addressed in “Trading Liberty” by Wendy Kaminer, which was published in The Free Inquiry in 2002 after the 9/11 events. Kaminer, other than having written several books is also a lawyer. On the other hand, the issue is also acknowledge in the article, “If Looks Could Kill” written by The Economist, which is a weekly magazine…

El-Yacoubi U.S. Government May 14, 2017 Civil Liberties events that have influenced a sense of social responsibility in the American Government today. It is important to start by understanding the differences between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties so the knowledge on each one will help to understand the importance of the event and how this influence the sense of social responsibility in the American Government these days. While the civil rights are basic rights such as right to…

founding fathers, the citizens of the United States and its government have debated over the controversy surrounding civil rights and civil liberties, most importantly civil liberties. Civil liberties are “the restraints on the actions of government against individuals” (Bardes, Schmidt, and Shelley 106). The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, describes these liberties. Originally, the Bill of Rights only applied to the federal governments due to our forefathers’ fear…

Our civil liberties are protected by the Bill of Rights which was created to place restraints on our national government. The Bill of Rights is our first ten amendments in the U.S. Constitution. “…bear in mind that the Bill of Rights, like the rest of the Constitution, is relatively brief. The framers set forth broad guidelines, leaving it up to the courts to interpret these constitutional mandates and apply them to specific situations,” (64). What many did not realize was that the Bill of…

the freedoms of Americans by restricting government intrusion but also functions as an essential factor to the foundation of this country. Privacy is the backbone that supports many other rights of the American people. It sustains freedom, life, liberty, happiness and so many other rights and values that are important to the people. If privacy is not defended as a right that is respected and honored, people may lose their freedoms as Americans to an overreaching…

there are organizations that fight for this freedom. One such organization is the American Civil Liberties Union. In the year 2000, when discussing the topic of book banning, the organization stated that, “Permitting restraints on literature sets the stage for attacks on all expression that is artistically or politically controversial or that portrays unpleasant realities of life” (American Civil Liberties Union). Although some books may contain graphic violence or sexual content, and therefore…