Concept information
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politics and international relations
political science
American politics and society
United States Supreme Court
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criminology
social history of crime
courts, corrections, punishments
United States Supreme Court
Preferred term
civil rights and civil liberties
Definition(s)
- Civil rights and liberties were a major issue in America in the mid-nineteenth century. The most volatile controversy revolved around slavery, as conflict over the “peculiar institution” contributed to the Civil War. [Source: Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History; Civil Rights and Civil Liberties]
Broader concept(s)
Narrower concept(s)
- automobile searches
- bail
- Bill of Rights
- Date: 1952 Brown v. Board of Education
- capital punishment
- Date: 1883 civil rights cases
- contempt of court
- cruel and unusual punishment
- Date: 1990 Cruzan v. Missouri Department of Health
- death penalty cases
- declaratory judgments
- double jeopardy
- Date: 1857 Dred Scott v. Sandford
- Eighth Amendment
- electronic eavesdropping
- equal employment opportunity
- equal protection of the law
- fair housing
- flag burning
- freedom of assembly
- freedom of association
- freedom of religion
- freedom of speech
- freedom of the press
- freedom to petition
- grandfather clauses
- Date: 1944 Korematsu v. United States
- Date: 1967 Loving v. Virginia
- loyalty oaths
- protection of aliens
- race and redistricting
- rights of juveniles
- right to a public trial
- right to counsel
- right to die
- right to privacy
- right to speedy trial
- right to trial by jury
- school prayer and bible readings
- search warrants
- self-incrimination
- sex discrimination
- slavery issues
- stop-and-frisk searches
- white primaries
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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-HMXTVWZN-Q
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