2007-08-25 13:12:57 · 3 answers · asked by gopher 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
These are rights that you have just being alive. The Constitution of the U.S. was designed to protect those rights, and has been pretty good overall. But today it is difficult to know because government officials are finding they have the right to change the constitution to fit the desires and needs of others without regard to what Civil Rights really is supposed to represent. So the definition of "Civil Rights" is getting a new meaning.
2007-08-25 13:32:53 · answer #1 · answered by Jay 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Civil rights DON'T exist. If they did, they would refer to right granted by the government. Many people use the term Constitutional rights to refer to GOD given rights PROTECTED by the Constitution. This is a misleading term. The Constitution does not grant any rights. The rights it protects are referred to in the Declaration of Independence as 'unalienable Rights'. These rights are 'endowed by their Creator'.
Most people claiming their 'civil rights' have been violated are referring to non-existent rights they falsely believe are granted by the Constitution.
2007-08-25 14:55:14 · answer #2 · answered by STEVEN F 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means that one (or more) of the protections given by God and guaranteed to you as an American citizen by the first ten amendments of the Constitution of the United States of America have been infringed upon by an agent of the government.
2007-08-25 13:27:49 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋