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