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civil rights

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  1. civil rightsnoun

    Those rights which are expressly enumerated in the U.S. Constitution and are considered to be unquestionable, deserved by all people under all circumstances, especially without regard to race, creed, color, gender and disabilities.

Wikipedia

  1. civil rights

    Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of society and the state without discrimination or repression. Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as sex, race, sexual orientation, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, social class, religion, and disability; and individual rights such as privacy and the freedom of thought, speech, religion, press, assembly, and movement. Political rights include natural justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition, the right of self-defense, and the right to vote. Civil and political rights form the original and main part of international human rights. They comprise the first portion of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (with economic, social, and cultural rights comprising the second portion). The theory of three generations of human rights considers this group of rights to be "first-generation rights", and the theory of negative and positive rights considers them to be generally negative rights.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Civil Rights

    Legal guarantee protecting the individual from attack on personal liberties, right to fair trial, right to vote, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. (from http://www.usccr.gov/ accessed 1/31/2003)

Editors Contribution

  1. civil rightsnoun

    1.) The rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality. 2.) Courteous and polite rights held to be justifiably belonging to any person; human rights. 3.) Let the unrighteous go on in unrighteousness; let the filthy go on being made filthy: let the righteous go on in righteousness; and let the holy go on being holy."(Revealing 22:11)"

    We tried to teach him the law by starting with civil rights.

    Etymology: Civil Law


    Submitted by Tony_Elyon on October 11, 2023  


  2. civil rights

    The rights created naturally by a form of unity assembly, unity council, unity legislature, unity senate, unity house of representatives, unity government, local unity government, regional unity government, national unity government, european unity government and international unity government to create citizens rights to optimum health, human rights, right to life, socialism, socialist unity government, socialist policies, well-being, accessibility, right to work, right to equal access to public services, right to free education, right to free preschool education, equal and identical pay for all, a universal living income system, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, freedom of movement, freedom of association and other fair and just rights that effect citizens of a local, regional or national area of a country that are created and enacted into legislation.

    Civil rights are a recognized requirement in countries around the world and are created justly and fairly.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 31, 2020  

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of civil rights in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of civil rights in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of civil rights in a Sentence

  1. Steven Taylor:

    We’ve not seen a lot of quality Democratic candidates for Senate because Sen. [Richard] Shelby and Sen. Sessions, they were so strongly ensconced in their positions that the Democratic nominee was most often a more fringe candidate and not taken very seriously, jones doesn’t fall in that category – he has a background as a prosecutor, he has linkage to Civil Rights prosecution for the bombers in Birmingham. This makes him a more serious and significant candidate.

  2. Benjamin Hooks:

    At that time you were insulted by law clerks, excluded from white bar associations and when I was in court, I was lucky to be called Ben, usually it was just ‘boy.’ [But] the judges were always fair. The discrimination of those days has changed and, today, the South is ahead of the North in many respects in civil rights progress.

  3. Ryan Hamilton:

    That doesnt make you pro-abortion, that makes you pro-civil rights.

  4. District Judge Tanya Chutkan:

    Mr. Smocks now seeks to somehow compare himself and drape himself in the mantle of civil rights. I, for one, find that offensive, people died fighting for civil rights.

  5. Pramila Jayapal:

    Today is historic, as the No Ban Actis the first bill to pass the House that directly addresses Muslim civil rights.


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