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/sˈɪvəl raɪt/ Listen

Civil right

noun

Right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality.

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... and how far they are unavoidably modified in accommodating the conflicting claims of men with one another. Any interference that goes beyond this necessary accommodation is oppression. Civil rights should agree as nearly as possible with natural rights, or, as Paine says, a civil right is a natural ...

— Liberalism • L. T. Hobhouse

... ideas. When Locke considers property—in which are included life and liberty—as an original right of the individual existing previous to the state, and when he conceives of the state as a society founded to protect this right, which is thus transformed from a natural to a civil right, he by no means ascribes definite fundamental rights to the man living in the state, but rather places such positive restrictions upon the legislative power as follow from the purposes of the state.[60] When ...

— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek

Words linked to "Civil right" : equal protection of the laws, freedom from involuntary servitude, freedom of religion, habeas corpus, freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, freedom from self-incrimination, freedom from double jeopardy, right to confront accusors, privilege against self incrimination, freedom from search and seizure, right to speedy and public trial by jury, equal opportunity, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, jurisprudence, freedom from discrimination, freedom of assembly, civil liberty, right to due process, freedom to bear arms, law, human right, right to an attorney