POL S 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Free Exercise Clause, Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Establishment Clause

• School: SDSU
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL S 102
• Professor: J.M E R C U R I O

Document Summary

Civil liberties: freedoms that we possess as individuals that government cannot interfere with or encroach upon, government is good guy: we are being protected. Civil rights: freedoms that we possess as groups that government must guarantee, government is bad guy. Success?- no success, words matter, word for word is important. Liberties are priority except: public safety, national security. Legislating morality: congress is not allowed to do anything that shows preference to anyone, such as religion. Grisworld v connecticut (1965: case of birth control, ruled in favor of grisworld, we have our zone of privacy. Roe v wade (1973: a(cid:271)out (cid:449)o(cid:373)a(cid:374)"s (cid:396)ep(cid:396)odu(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e s(cid:455)ste(cid:373), woman decides if she has sex or not and with who and if she gets pregnant, she can carry it out or not. Bowers v hardwick (1986: state wide banned in georgia, no gay relationships, no constitutional right for sodomy.