Chapter 5, Section 1

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Chapter 5, Section 1

• The Rights of Citizens

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Warm-up

• Follow These Directions
• All brown-eyed people sit in the front of the
  class. Everyone else should be seated behind
  them.

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Objectives

• Explain the three categories of rights contained
  in the Bill of Rights.
• Discuss the needs for limits on rights in our
  democratic society.
• Describe how the Civil Rights Movement of the
  1960s resulted in broadening our rights as
  Americans.

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The Rights of Citizens

• Three Sources of our rights
• 1. The Declaration of Independence
  Constitution.
• 2. Laws enacted by Congress state legislatures.
• 3. Interpretation of the laws by the courts.

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1.) Categories of Rights

• A.) Security means protection from unfair and
  unreasonable actions by the government. The
  principle of due process of law protects our
  rights.
• B.) Equality everyone is entitled to the equal
  protection of all the laws in the United States.

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1.) Categories of Rights

• C.) Liberty The rights we are most familiar
  our fundamental freedoms. Such as the first
  amendment rights and Bill of Rights.

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2.) Limits on Rights

• A.) Limits on Rights Our rights are not
  unlimited. The government can establish laws that
  restrict individual freedoms to protect the
  community.
• B.) The Civil Rights Movement
• The civil rights movement resulted in the passage
  of several new federal and state laws that
  increased rights of all citizens.
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3.) The Civil Rights Movement

• A.) Discrimination unfair or unequal treatment
  toward one group.
• B.) The Civil Rights Act This act gave African
  Americans equal protection under the law.
• C.) The Voting Rights Act Empowered federal
  government to intervene in places where African
  Americans were being discriminated against.

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3.) The Civil Rights Movement

• D.) Affirmative Action Taking special steps to
  help minorities and women gain access to jobs and
  opportunities denied them in the past.
• E.) Equal Protection Every citizen has the same
  rights as every other citizen.
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