Essays on Civil Liberties

The Taking of Civil Liberties and the American Population’s Response This paper explains the motivation of presidents for putting out acts and orders that stifle individual freedoms, oppress a group of people, and create unjust and harmful laws in action while still maintaining the support...

Civil liberties and civil rights are mechanical components that have influence on the way we live our lives. Each category can be applied in different situations, to identify different experiences for each individual. People in the US, for instance, have started to question whether democracy...

The two terms “Civil Rights” and “Civil Liberties” are usually involved in our daily conversations. We use these words so regularly that many of us don’t even realize we’ve been using them interchangeably and incorrectly. Even though we can say that they are similar to...

The emergence of laws that promise to provide safety and security, tend to effectively challenge liberalism and civil liberties. Liberal democracies emphasize the importance of rights and freedoms, although, according to the source these liberties can be neglected when a nation is faced with external...

When the first colonies came to America in 1607 they faced prosecution for exercising their religious beliefs not long after the American revolution, the framers wrote our constitution and from that the bill of rights which guarantees Americans their civil liberties. Civil liberties are basic...

“No fundamental social change occurs merely because of government acts. It’s because of civil society that the conscience of a country, begins to rise up and demand – demand – demand change.” Joe Biden. According to UN, Civil society is the “third sector” of society,...

Throughout the topics of study in this course I found the following subjects the most compelling. We have studied the federal court system and judicial review, American civil liberties, and American public policy. Within the study of public policy, domestic and foreign policy are by...

The American Civil Liberties Union, or ACLU, first arose following World War I. World War I had created a communist fear that swept across the United States. This was known as the Red Scare. As a result, legislators, specifically one named Mitchell A. Palmer, rounded...

The primary role of the military is the protection of territorial sovereignty. This does not preclude it from being involved in operations other than war to enhance total national defence. The employment of the Infantry Battalions of the Guyana Defence Force in Civil Defence Operations...

Benjamin Franklin’s quotation was made at time just before the American War of Independence, it was directed to a domestic audience and arguably for the purpose of urging them not to scuttle any chance for real liberty and independence in the colonies. So, viewing this...

In this essay, I will argue that, in order to maximize the well-being of a state’s citizens, the key focus on liberal theory, liberals and their systems should value both negative and positive liberties. This is due to negative liberty’s approach towards limiting the externalities...