POLI 2051 Lecture : Lecture Ch15 16
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Civil rights - they declare what government must. Civil liberties: the bill of rights in context. The idea of a national or federal bill of rights had. They take the form of negative restraints on gov. Ex: freedom of speech, press, religion. do or provide. It is generally a claim upon state action, usually asserted by a group, usually the have nots in society. Ex: right to vote, right to trial, etc. Ii. very little meaning initially - it was seen as limiting action of the national government, not the state governments. The 14th amendment (1868) seemed to change all this. It was one of the civil war amendments designed to protect the rights of newly emancipated blacks. The result was that people had some protection. Through the due process clause of the 14th. How did the bill of rights come to be applied to: the nationalization of the bill of rights: gitlow v.
