U.S. Government and Rights

Order Description Write a three to four (3-4) page paper in which the student answers the following three (3) items using headers to separate each item: 1. Discuss either two (2) civil liberties or two (2) civil rights events (past or current) that have influenced a sense of social responsibility in the American government today. Provide examples to support your answer. Note: In your response, consider how the events influenced the way state, local or national political leaders or agencies responded in a socially responsible or ethical manner toward the community. 1. HERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES OF TOPICS you can write about: A) Civil Rights: Which means 'the basic right to be free from unequal treatment, based on certain characteristics which we deem important, like race, gender, and disability'. Civil rights include a class of rights and freedoms ensure one?s ability to participate in civil and political affairs without discrimination or repression. ? Laws ensuring peoples? physical integrity and safety and laws to make sure that people are not forced into labor. ? Laws protecting people from private (non-government) discrimination (based on gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, etc.) ? Laws providing equal access to health care, education, culture, etc. -Brown vs Board of education 1954 civil rights movement, -American With Disabilities Act 1990 -LGBT Bathroom conflict between the federal Civil Rights Act - protecting civil rights of LGBT people vs the State Laws protecting the people?s right to privacy -Equal Pay Act supporting equal pay for women -Civil Rights Act 1964; and the Black civil rights movement, Selma march and the Voting Rights Act. -Any effort to support people to be free from discrimination, or unfair treatment with regard to employment, housing, sexual orientation, religious affiliation?. B) Civil Liberties