Essays on Civil rights and liberties

First Amendment What is 1st Amendment? First Amendment gives the citizens of the United States the freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. It was adopted in 1791 and is one of the amendments that are part of the Bill of Rights. It sounds simple as we read it but do we really understand…

In the case of Village of Skokie vs. The ACLU(American Civil Liberties Union) I would definitely stand with the ACLU. The ACLU was defending the First Amendment Right. They were not defending the Nazis. We might not agree with what the Nazis are saying but, they still have a right to say it. Herb Lewison…

Audiovisual monitoring of employees by their employers – The spying scandal of LIDL What fundamental civil rights were violated by LIDL? By monitoring their employees through audiovisual media, the food supply chain LIDL infringed upon people’s rights of human dignity and of the non-violation of a person, in their immediate expressions, their social role and…

Michelle’ Daniels Kaplan University Scenario 1 Jim Philips is the attorney for Karen Monstrous. Karen is filing suit against Howard Doe in a domestic dispute. Jim Philips sends Memorial Hospital an original authorization that is signed and dated by Karen Monstrous. The authorization, addressed to your hospital, includes the dates of the records requested. The…

The first amendment says it’s all right to express one’s opinions as long as that opinion doesn’t do any harm to others. Flag Burning, as the Supreme Court declared it, is protected underneath the first amendment whether you or I like it or not. That is a fact. If the majority believes it’s unjust to…

In “A Call For Unity’ the clergymen state that some of the demonstrations have been “directed and led in part y outsiders” (Carpenter, et al. Par 3). One can safely assume, such as King does in his response letter, that the Clergymen are accusing King of being an outsider. Farther into their letter, the Clergymen…

Should the Internet be censored? This is a sticky question; no matter what answer you give to this question there will always be a valid argument in response to your answer. There are lots of arguments in the answer I found doing the research I did. The United States is not the only country with…

Bayard Rustin is an unknown civil rights hero of his time. He gave great effort on advocating civil rights and was part of the first freedom rides in 1947. Bayard Rustin, an openly gay black man, helped introduce Gandhi nonviolence to the civil rights movement. Unfortunately, Rustin was put in jail for refusing to participate…

The legal case of Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. is a sex discrimination case under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Title VII specifically forbids any employer to … discriminate with respect to compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment in any way that would deprive any individual of employment opportunity…

After her application for employment as a “correctional counselor” in Alabama was rejected because she failed to meet the minimum 120-pound weight requirement of an Alabama statute, which also establishes a height minimum of 5 feet 2 inches, Dianne Rawlinson filed a charge with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and ultimately brought a class action…