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n. civil rights and freedoms such as the freedom from enslavement, freedom from torture(,) and right to a fair trial.
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Civil liberties or personal freedoms are personal guarantees and freedoms that the government cannot abridge, either by law or by judicial interpretation, without due process. Though the scope of the term differs between countries, civil liberties may include the freedom from torture, freedom from forced disappearance, freedom of conscience, freedom of press, freedom of religion, freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, the right to security and liberty, freedom of speech, the right to privacy, the right to equal treatment under the law and due process, the right to a fair trial, and the right to life. Other civil liberties include the right to own property, the right to defend oneself, and the right to bodily integrity. Within the distinctions between civil liberties and other types of liberty, distinctions exist between positive liberty/ positive rights and negative liberty/ negative rights.
Usage examples of "civil liberties".
At the outset, the dissidents argued from the privileges enshrined in colonial charters, the rights of British subjects, and the unwritten British constitution, understood as a splendid accumulation of civil liberties.
He was doing too much, thereby threatening the civil liberties of Arabs.
Three un-civil liberties groups hastened to join Glassroth in his effort to stifle the display of the Big Ten: the Red Diaper Doper Babies of the ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
That means Americans must give up some civil liberties in order to catch those who would kill us and then we get our civil liberties back.
Conservatives may give lip service to free speech and civil liberties, Dershowitz explained, but in fact they were hypocrites.
Have a civilian, preferably a civil liberties lawyer, sign the declaration of intent.
The Kornatians are going to want firm, decisive action, but they also have a tradition of the fierce defense of individual civil liberties.
Shrewsbury, which had profited by John's want of money in the past to enlarge its civil liberties by charter after charter, stood by its bargains and declared for John.