POLS 015B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Espionage Act Of 1917, Substantive Rights, Due Process
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Pols 15b lecture 11 chapter 4 discussion: civil rights, places restrictions on government. Civil liberties: civil liberties: rights given to individuals that cannot be infringed upon by government, protects individuals, not intended to prevent government from doing its job. Liberties in the bill of rights: two parts, due process (why, amendments, 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, substantive rights (when, amendments, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, restrictions depending on specific legitimate public interest. Sedition act: illegal to lie or spread rumors about government officials. Barron v. baltimore (1833: limit on national government, not state, bill of rights did not apply to states, everyone has right to appeal in court, baltimore took away barron"s right to due process. 14th amendment (ratified after civil war: due process clause, no state can deprive individual of rights/liberty without due process, equal protection clause, people were unsure what that entailed, supreme court did not decide until [sic]
