The Constitution protects our basic rights by having made the Bill of Rights and amendments 14, 15, 19, and 26. Also, by keeping us safe from people who have broken the law and endanger others' life, liberty, and property.
Civil Liberties of individuals in the US, including the freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly and petition.
(bill of rights)
He promises to protect the US Constitution when he is sworn into office.
Anti-federalists thought that the Constitution did not contain enough guarantees of the rights of individual citizens. They were instrumental in having the Bill of Rights added as the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
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Yes. But this would not protect the person who goes beyond the limits in the US Constitution from prosecution in Federal Court. What the states may not do is impose more restrictive limits on civil liberties or civil rights than those in the US Constitution.
The US Bill of Rights was created to protect U.S. citizen's individual liberties.
The US Bill of Rights was created to protect U.S. citizen's individual liberties.
Civil Liberties of individuals in the US, including the freedom of Speech, Religion, Press, Assembly and petition.
(bill of rights)
The Framers of the US Constitution who were not Federalists feared a strong central government. Because of this ten amendments were attached to the US Constitution. These 10, called the Bill of Rights, were an added protection against a central government that might become too powerful.
The Constitution really grants us zero liberties or rights. It acknowledges that we are born with certain rights and that the Government is not supposed to limit or take away from those rights. The Constitution grants the Government certain limited rights over us to make a civil and useful society. Other then those limitations we allow the Government to have under the constitution, we are free to do what we wish. The Constitution gives our Government certain (very limited) rights and liberties. We have chosen to allow our Government to have these rights to allow for a working society.
The Constitution of the US!
in what way did the u.s government violate the civil liberties of certain groups?
Both are democracies with elected legislatures, whose rulers are bound to protect the civil liberties of their citizens.
explain how civil liberties affect the nature of democracy and the scope of government in the United States.
The founding fathers of the USA believed that individuals were born free, and that freedom was a gift from God. They did not want a overly strong central government to have the ability to negate the civil liberties of its citizens. With that said, the US republic was so devised and was ruled by a fair central government as described in its founding document, the US Constitution.