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  2. Natural rights and legal rights - Wikipedia

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    Natural rights were traditionally viewed as exclusively negative rights, [6] whereas human rights also comprise positive rights. [7] Even on a natural rights conception of human rights, the two terms may not be synonymous. The concept of natural rights is not universally accepted, partly due to its religious associations and perceived incoherence.

  3. Constitution of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Warren built a coalition of justices after 1962 that developed the idea of natural rights as guaranteed in the Constitution. Brown v. Board of Education banned segregation in public schools. Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v. Sims established Court ordered "one-man-one-vote". Bill of Rights Amendments were incorporated into the states.

  4. Civil liberties in the United States - Wikipedia

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    American Civil Liberties Union Archived 2009-10-21 at the Wayback Machine. ACLU.org. n.d. Web. 27 Sept. 2009. FindLaw. First Amendment - Religion and Expression Archived 2011-08-25 at the Wayback Machine. FindLaw for Legal Professionals. FindLaw, 2009. Web. 29 Sept. 2009. Gordon, Jesse. Civil Liberties vs. Civil Rights Archived 2019-03-10 at ...

  5. Human rights in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The US is a signatory to the 1948 American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man and has signed but not ratified the 1969 American Convention on Human Rights. It is a member of Inter-American Convention on the Granting of Political Rights to Women (1948). It does not accept the adjudicatory jurisdiction of the Costa Rica-based Inter ...

  6. Individual and group rights - Wikipedia

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    Besides the rights of groups based upon the immutable characteristics of their individual members, other group rights exercised and enshrined in law at different levels including those held by organizational persons, including nation-states, trade unions, corporations, trade associations, chambers of commerce, specific ethnic groups, and political parties.

  7. Rights - Wikipedia

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    Natural rights are rights which are "natural" in the sense of "not artificial, not man-made", as in rights deriving from human nature or from the edicts of a god. They are universal; that is, they apply to all people, and do not derive from the laws of any specific society. They exist necessarily, inhere in every individual, and cannot be taken ...

  8. United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the ...

  9. First Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    In the original draft of the Bill of Rights, what is now the First Amendment occupied third place. The first two articles were not ratified by the states, so the article on disestablishment and free speech ended up being first. [1] [2] The Bill of Rights was proposed to assuage Anti-Federalist opposition to Constitutional ratification.