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Civil rights Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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civil rights
Noun
1. right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality
(synonym) civil right
(hypernym) human right
(hyponym) civil liberty
(classification) law, jurisprudence
Noun
1. right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality
(synonym) civil right
(hypernym) human right
(hyponym) civil liberty
(classification) law, jurisprudence
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civil rights
civil rights
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Civil rights Definition from Law Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Civil rights
The nonpolitical rights of all citizens, especially those rightsrelating to personal liberty. Civil rights differ from civil liberties in thatcivil rights are positive in nature, and civil liberties, negative; that is,civil liberties are immunities from governmental interference or limitations ongovernmental action (as in the First Amendment) that have the effect ofreserving rights to individuals.
The nonpolitical rights of all citizens, especially those rightsrelating to personal liberty. Civil rights differ from civil liberties in thatcivil rights are positive in nature, and civil liberties, negative; that is,civil liberties are immunities from governmental interference or limitations ongovernmental action (as in the First Amendment) that have the effect ofreserving rights to individuals.
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Civil rights, civil liberties
The rights of every citizen to freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, freedom to enjoy privacy and autonomy in the management of one's personal affairs, freedom of private individuals to associate voluntarily and to form organizations for pursuing common purposes, and freedom to participate politically in ways that do not infringe upon the similar rights of others. Although the two terms overlap considerably in ordinary usage (and are often difficult to distinguish in concrete instances), the term civil liberties generally refers more specifically to the protection of the individual's rights to form and express his or her own preferences or convictions and to act freely upon them in the private sphere without undue or intrusive interference by the government, while the term civil rights emphasizes more specifically the individual's rights as a citizen to participate freely and equally in politics and public affairs in order actively to promote his/her preferred public policy alternatives through lobbying policy-makers and/or through personal participation in the electoral process. Thus, civil liberties may be seen as the logical correlates of the goal of limited government, while civil rights are the logical correlates of the goal of popular or democratic government.
[See also: democracy , liberalism , libertarianism ]
The rights of every citizen to freedom of thought, freedom of conscience, freedom of expression, freedom of movement, freedom to enjoy privacy and autonomy in the management of one's personal affairs, freedom of private individuals to associate voluntarily and to form organizations for pursuing common purposes, and freedom to participate politically in ways that do not infringe upon the similar rights of others. Although the two terms overlap considerably in ordinary usage (and are often difficult to distinguish in concrete instances), the term civil liberties generally refers more specifically to the protection of the individual's rights to form and express his or her own preferences or convictions and to act freely upon them in the private sphere without undue or intrusive interference by the government, while the term civil rights emphasizes more specifically the individual's rights as a citizen to participate freely and equally in politics and public affairs in order actively to promote his/her preferred public policy alternatives through lobbying policy-makers and/or through personal participation in the electoral process. Thus, civil liberties may be seen as the logical correlates of the goal of limited government, while civil rights are the logical correlates of the goal of popular or democratic government.
[See also: democracy , liberalism , libertarianism ]
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civil rights
Protections and privileges given to all U.S. citizens by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Protections and privileges given to all U.S. citizens by the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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CIVIL RIGHTS
Legal rights held by all citizens in a given state.
Legal rights held by all citizens in a given state.
Civil rights Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Civil rights
Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power given to all citizens by law. Civil rights are distinguished from "human rights" or "natural rights". Civil rights are rights that are bestowed by nations on those within their territorial boundaries, while natural or human rights are rights that many scholars claim that individuals have by nature of being born. For example, the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) argued that the natural rights of life, liberty and property should be converted into civil rights and protected by the sovereign state as an aspect of the social contract. Others have argued that people acquire rights as an inalienable gift from a deity (such as God) or at a time of nature before governments were formed.
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