Lecture 20Policy Making Civil Liberties and rights Liberties and Rights Lecture 20Policy Making Civil Liberties and rights Liberties and Rights• Civil Liberties • Protections of citizens from improper governmental action • 1st Amendment • “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment ofreligion” • 4th Amendment • “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures,shall not be violated” • Civil Rights • Obligations placed upon governments to guarantee equal citizenship and protectcitizens from discriminatory practices • 14th Amendment • “No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge theprivileges or immunities of citizens” • “Nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, orproperty, without due process of law” • “Nor deny to any person within it jurisdiction the equal protectionof the laws” Liberties: Era of Dual Citizenship• For most of U.S. History the Bill of Rights applied only to the actions of the U.S.Government • Barron v. Baltimore (1833) These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. POLS 1113 1st Edition• Matters involving the U.S. Government • Citizens’ liberties were guaranteed by the Constitution • Matters involving a state government • Citizens’ liberties were guaranteed by their state constitutionsCivil Rights: Pre brown• Truman - Committee on Civil Rights (1946) • Executive order 9808 • Truman – Desegregation of Military (1948) • Executive order 9981 • Sweatt v. Painter (1950) • Ruling against segregation at the University of Texas law school • Shelley v. Kraemer (1948) • Ruling against racial covenants in real estate Post Brown• Brown v. Board of Education (1954) • Strikes down separate but equal standard • Eisenhower sends troops to Little Rock (1957) • To enforce integration of Central High School • Boynton v. Virginia (1960) • Small decision about segregation in public transportation • led to the organization of the freedom rides • Civil Rights Act of 1964 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965• Both provided financial incentives for school systems to desegregate • Voting Rights Act of
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