POL SCI 1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Wilmot Proviso, Free Soil Party, Missouri Compromise
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Opening: post-9/11 racial profiling of arabs, popular support for programs but civil liberties groups like aclu complain, analogies to japanese internment: arizona show me your papers law. Moral: civil rights are critical- from jim crow to voting to citizenship. Civil liberties- constitutions" protections from government power: freedoms the government cannot take away (speech, liberty, privacy, religion, violations occur when a government agency oversteps its authority. Not enough for founders so they pass the bill of rights. Struggles for rights (slavery, civil war, jim crow, citizenship) by some have defined civil rights and liberties for all. Early abolition movements focused on life liberty happiness moral argument; movement persisted throughout antebellum and civil war periods. While national majorities favor civil rights, they have only struck out forcefully against oppression twice (1st reconstruction and civil rights movement) 1808- congress ended imports of new slaves: south did not resist because they thought limited supply would drive up the value of human property.
