Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

1. 2 Define Civil Liberties; then define Civil Rights. How are they similar? How do they differ? Which civil sequence has more influence on your life as you know it to be now? Why do you believe this to be so?

In total there are fifteen laws that count towards the topic of civil rights in the United States, alone. Kenji Yoshino, author of “The New Civil Rights” says that in order for us to turn our current beliefs into a set of ‘new’ civil rights, law must play a role. Obvious enough, law alone cannot bring about a new set of civil rights. There are more than enough pieces that could make up this puzzle. For instance, media plays a huge role in this situation. The media only shows what they want us, the people, to see. If we only see what they want us to see then wouldn’t that leave us very narrow-minded? The media adds irrelevant detail to every situation. For example, a person’s race, which otherwise

Had I been born a mere 60 years earlier, I would likely be in jail. Before discussing the U.S. Supreme Court decision which has preserved my freedom, I would like to examine the nature of civil rights and civil liberties. Next, we will look at some of the historical context which would have found me jailed. Lastly, we will conclude by looking at the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court 's landmark decision which has preserved my civil liberties as well as my civil rights.

Cristina Gomez Professor Sharifian Federal Government (GOVT-2305-71433) 30 September 2017 Civil Liberties v Civil Rights Each year, 130 million children are born each year. Four million of these children are born in the United States. Unlike many other countries, the children of the United States are not just born with a head, shoulders, knees, and toes; they are born with the most fundamental form of American political values, civil liberties and civil rights.

SLO #1 Civil Liberties v Civil Rights Dylan Dang, GOV 2301 In today’s world, a country’s government has a monumental impact on how society functions.

The difference between civil rights and civil liberties are, “what right is affected and whose right is affected”. Civil rights are the basic right and privilege to be free from any unequal treatment based on characteristics like, gender, race, disabilities, origin, religion, and or any other characteristic in a setting like employment and housing. Civil liberties are rights and freedoms that are guaranteed to you by the bill of rights and the constitution. The civil liberties include the right to vote, the right to marry, the right to a fair court trial, the right to be free from unreasonable searches of your home, the right to privacy, and the freedom of speech.

Civil rights and civil liberties Every citizen of the country is bounded and benefited with the freedom of Civil rights and Civil liberty. Civil right is the right of the citizen to be equally and fairly treated by the government, written in the 14th Amendment. Civil right moment was mainly focused only on the slaved, African American people. Then civil liberties firstly, not only protected the rights of African American people, it also included the right of gay, lesbian and female people. Civil Liberties has given the freedom, against the interfere done by the government. Both the right was about the people rights to live freely without the discrimination. 1

This country was founded on the fact that America was built by immigrants. From Plymouth Rock in the seventeenth century to Ellis Island in the twentieth, people from everywhere came to America. Some were fleeing religious persecution and political turmoil. In recent years, an increased number of immigrants have caused many Americans to believe that the country is overwhelmed by immigrants and have urged policymakers to create laws that discourage both legal and undocumented immigrants. The controversy surrounding this and other policies has made immigration one of the most divisive publicly issues of the decade. The USA needs to tighten up its Human Rights laws or at least enforce what they have.

There is a standard contrast between civil liberties and civil rights. The words show up in the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. The power given to the (2) two has constantly clouded, and today the thoughts are consistently used interchangeably. Regardless, they do insinuate different sorts of guaranteed assurances. Universal freedoms are protections against government activities. Social equality, then again, suggests positive moves of government should make to make proportionate conditions for all Americans. The articulation "social liberties" is every now and again associated with the protection of minority get-togethers, for instance, African Americans, Hispanics, and women.

Many of those who practice Judaism are often offended when government buildings have blatantly obvious christian signs outside their buildings (ex. Nativity scene outside government building) while many christians see religious displays as an important part of our heritage

Civil liberties are “The personal freedom of individuals that are protected from the government” and Civil rights are the “protection of historically disadvantaged groups from infringement of their equality rights by discriminatory sections”(pg. 497) “A Time for Justice” is all about the civil rights and how African Americans fought for the end of segregation. First it starts in 1955 with a child just talking to a white woman in the south and the next night he was killed. The white men who killed him confessed, but since the jury only had white males the murderers were not convicted. After this, Rosa Parks who was well respected, was arrested only days later so the community was angered. This lead to one of the most well known and main protests of the time, buss boycotts. After 381 days the segregation of busses was ended. The next thing the movement did, was end segregation in schools. In Little Rock Arkansas nine African American students had to be given protection by the coast guard, but they went to school and inspired others to do something too. So, people then fought to end lunch counter segregation and interstate bus travel with freedom riders. This did not end well, because it angered many white supremacists, such as Ku Klux Klan members, and many activists got arrested and beaten. It did depict most of the feelings toward this movement all together from white males, even the police would either sit back and watch violence happen or join in the violence themselves.

After the Thirteenth Amendment was put in place, stating that slaves were completely free in America, African Americans in the south began moving out of their masters’ plantations into their own land. They began renting land and working for others, ready to put themselves into working long and difficult days, eventually integrating themselves into American society, and did so on the basis that they would “own their own land… control those hours…and be the ones to decide” (PBS, 2012). However, the southern elite were concerned, since most their capital was now lost, and their plantations were declining without the millions of slaves working on them. On the other hand, white

Civil liberties and civil rights are concepts that protect the citizens of the United States. When it comes to civil liberties, citizens individual freedoms are protected by law from unjust government interference. Contrary to what most people believe, civil rights are not the same thing as civil liberties. Civil rights are the basic rights to be free from unequal treatment based on certain characteristics. Based on civil liberties and civil rights, Miranda Rights, “affirmative action,” and the “clear and present danger test” are all notions that protect and serve the citizens of the United States.

Civil Liberties are the freedoms that are given to us by our democratic government. Freedoms which include: freedom of press, freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom of conscience, freedom of assembly, and lastly the right to live. On the other hand, Civil Rights are privileges that include: freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of assembly,  and lastly the right to vote these rights apply to everyone no matter what ethnicity or gender. The main differences between the Civil Liberties and Civil Rights are that Civil liberties are a means of a restriction on government being too powerful and controlling the power of the government if it becomes abusive. Civil Rights are primarily for the citizens, these rights give each citizen a means of protection and freedom, no matter what historical background they came from.

Asian immigration to the United States began in the early nineteenth-century during the gold-rush and the railway building period; white people during that time viewed Asians as “job stealer” and “dangerous criminals”, which resulted in the “Yellow Peril”. (Stewart “Arab Immigration and Stereotypes”) As a result, the United States government passed the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to ban Chinese laborers, the law requires the immigrants either have relatives in the United States or relation to established merchants. Later in 1901, the Japanese immigration ended with the “gentleman’s agreement” after San Francisco mayor expressed his concern on Japanese immigrants (Stewart “Asian American Identity...”). In addition, during World War II, the concentration camps for Japanese in America illustrates racism in the United States. Apart from the Chinese and the Japanese, other Asian ethnicities were treated