The United States is a country where civil liberties are highly respected. Many scholars underscore the role of the Bill of Rights, a legal document added in 1791 to the Constitution, in preserving liberties. However, other scholars undermine the value of...
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The United States is a country where civil liberties are highly respected. Many scholars underscore the role of the Bill of Rights, a legal document added in 1791 to the Constitution, in preserving liberties. However, other scholars undermine the value of this legal document. This research is aimed to explore the value of the Bill of rights defending an overall claim suggesting that it is the spirit of the Bill of Rights and the liberties it initially defined in its Ten Amendments that has permanently guaranteed fundamental freedoms, allowed the balance between citizens’ rights and government power as it has permitted addressing such issues as race relations.
This research demonstrates the link between laws protecting civil liberties and the Bill of Rights through a case study. In order to show the role of Bill of Rights in the protection of civil liberties, we choose to examine the link between the Bill of Rights and the different laws issued through different periods of time to int
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