What are civil rights? What are natural rights? How are both sets of rights protected by the Constitution, either explicitly or implicitly?
Answer:
An ideal response will:
1. Define civil rights as the rights of all people to be free from irrational discrimination such as that based on race, religion, sex, or ethnic origin.
2. Identify natural rights, also called human rights, as the rights of all people to dignity and worth.
3. Explain that the Constitution protects civil rights by protecting people from abuse by the government, and by granting national and state governments the power to ensure that people are not abused by their fellow citizens.
4. Discuss how the Framers of the Constitution believed that all men are entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and thus they created a system of government designed to protect these natural rights, which means that all people have an equal right to protection from arbitrary treatment and to the liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
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If a state denied a specific group, such as citizens of mixed race, the right to vote, this would be an example of which of the following?
a. Social choice b. Public discrimination c. Strict scrutiny d. Private discrimination e. Private choice