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civil rights
Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. They ensure one's entitlement to participate in the civil and political life of society and the state without discrimination or repression.
Civil rights include the ensuring of peoples' physical and mental integrity, life, and safety; protection from discrimination on grounds such as race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, political affiliation, ethnicity, religion, and disability; and individual rights such as privacy and the freedom of thought, speech, religion, press, assembly, and movement.
Political rights include natural justice (procedural fairness) in law, such as the rights of the accused, including the right to a fair trial; due process; the right to seek redress or a legal remedy; and rights of participation in civil society and politics such as freedom of association, the right to assemble, the right to petition, the right of self-defense, and the right to vote.
Civil and political rights form the original and main part of international human rights. They comprise the first portion of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (with economic, social, and cultural rights comprising the second portion). The theory of three generations of human rights considers this group of rights to be "first-generation rights", and the theory of negative and positive rights considers them to be generally negative rights.
Since 1791, our country has held fast a strong tradition of citizens ability to lawfully possess, purchase, manufacture and use firearms for all lawful purposes. Our State Constitution protects this long held, inalienable right, with even stronger language, "shall not be impaired". These...
I spent four days down at cabin (no internet) kicking around snow and trying to keep the woodstove fed. I started thinking about how our current battles against gun grabbers share similarities to battles fought for civil rights from witches to modern day immigrants. We are a minority, not...
The latest In Range TV Q&A was, candidly, pretty bad. There was, however, a good question asked: "What is your take on the role of weapons and firearms in the history of civil rights or what sorts of changes over time do you see in their use within the civil rights movements in your knowledge...