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What group was concerned about the constitutions provisions for the strength of the president and the lack of specific guarantees of civil liberties?
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The anti-federalists.
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Who guarantees that individual civil liberties are not violated?
Supreme court
Guarantees of personal freedom against possible threats from the government are called?
Civil Liberties.
What are guarantees of personal freedoms against possible threats from the government called?
Civil Liberties.
What is the Constitution's Bill of Rights most concerned with?
the personal liberties of American citizens
The states adopted constitutions that limited the power of the?
governer
8 How have the court decisions defined the constitutions and the civil liberties of American citizens?
Apex Question, copyright violation
What does the term civil liberty refer to?
Civil liberties include numerous provisions, many of them listed in the Bill of Rights, that protect person who are suspected of criminal activity. Among these are limits on how the police as agents of the government can conduct searches and seizures
What the constitution bill of rights most concerned?
the personal liberties of american citizens
Who believe additional protections in the constitutions would further secure the rights and liberties of citizens?
all anti federalist and some federalist
Are state laws more important than federal laws?
federal law does over rule state law, however as Professor Jeffrey M. Shaman said "State courts can focus on local conditions within their states." "State constitutions contain various provisions not found in the federal constitution and state judges have rediscovered the historical foundations of their constitutions that guarantee rights and liberties."
What four characteristics were shared by most new state constitutions?
Popular Sovereignty, Limited Government, Civil Rights and Liberties, and Spearation of Powers and Checks and Balances.
The Anti-Federalists were concerned that the newly drafted Constitution did not protect individual liberties How was this concern addressed?
with the Bill of Rights
