1. Civil Liberties

2. Issues
Civil Liberties are significant issues because there is often conflict between groups for rights guaranteed in the Constitution
First Amendment “rights”= issues
Rights of the accused are found in the Bill of Rights

3. Background of Civil Liberties issues
Framers intent
1. Limit Fed Power & Validate state
Constitutions
2. Constitution- What Government
Can do not what it cannot.
3. Government “can’t” do = Fed.
government only.
What problem does this create?

4. Civil Liberties Issues

5. The Bill of rights contains competing rights.

6. Government officials have been successful at restricting rights at wartime.(Limit a minority)

7. Cultural Issues
Mixing of different cultures has caused individuals to feel offended
Jews at Christmas on Government property
Monolingual schools in Spanish areas
Healthcare to illegal aliens

8. First Amendment

9. Freedom of Expression & National Security (press & prior restraint)
- Clear & Present danger
Selective Incorporation
- Gitlow v. New York
Defining Speech
- Libel, FCC- Obscenity, Symbolic Speech

10. 1st Amendment Defining a Person- Individual vs. Corporations
Young Adults- School Newspapers
Church & State
- Free-Exercise Clause
- Establishment Clause

11. Rights of the Accused

12. Rights of the accused Self-Incrimination
Exclusionary rule (Mapp v. Ohio) states
Search & seizure
- Public Safety & Immediate control
- Miranda v. Arizona

13. Civil Rights

14. Background Slow Progress Whites were politically dominant
Southerners feared competition
Whites dominated politics and process
Fed. Action for equality, unfavorable

15. Equality, How’d They do it?
Publicize issues
Forget Congress go to Court

16. Courts 14th Amendment- Plessy v. Ferguson - NAACP 1. Obviously unequal
2. Not-so Unequal
3. Inherently unequal

17. Brown v. Board of Education
Implementation
Rationale
Desegregation vs. Integration

18. Congress & Civil Rights
Public Opinion & Majoritarian issue
- Sit-ins, freedom rides,
nonviolence, militant riots
Good vs. Bad, on the agenda

19. Women & Equal Rights

20. Women & Equal Rights The Draft- Rostker v. Goldberg Sexual Harassment
Abortion

21. Affirmative Action