The Unalienable Rights

Reference 19.1 and 19.4 textbook

The Principle ofLimited Government

• The process of judicial review which The process of judicial review which has interpreted/defined the meaning has interpreted/defined the meaning of the Constitution and the intent of of the Constitution and the intent of its authors has continued for all its authors has continued for all 200+ years of the United States.200+ years of the United States.

• Civil LibertiesCivil Liberties: protections against government • Civil Rights: Civil Rights: positive actions of government to

guarantee Constitutional provisions

Rights are relativerelative not absolute

• Contradicts Constitutional principles

• Threatens public safety

• Infringes another’s rights

• Incites criminal or unlawful behavior

• Some rights have applied only to citizens

9th Amendment

• Rights reserved to the people—not defined but inferred

– Based on Court interpretation

• No prosecution based on evidence unlawfully gained

• “right to privacy” (reproductive rights)

14th Amendment(Reconstruction Amendment)

• Extends the guarantees in the Bill of Rights to State Governments.

““No state shall…deprive any person of life, No state shall…deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of liberty, or property, without due process of

law.”law.”

• “process of incorporation”

Amendment 1 Freedom of Assembly and Petition

• “peaceable”

• No guaranteed right to “civil disobedience”

• Time-Place-Manner restrictions

Assignment

• Complete Reading Guides for 19.2/19.3

• Prepare to write a short response for each of the following:

• Summarize court actions on freedom or religion-both clauses.

• Summarize court action on freedom of speech.