American Government › Section D · Civil liberties › Topic D.1
What are civil liberties?
Civil liberties mark out what government may not do to you: silence you, force a faith on you, lock you up without a hearing. Knowing where they come from, and how they came to bind the states, explains much of what the Supreme Court argues about today.
In this topic
- Liberties and rights
- A Constitution without a bill of rights
- The Anti-Federalists win the argument
- What the Bill of Rights covers
- Liberty under pressure
- Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
- The Fourteenth Amendment
- Selective incorporation
- Worked example: liberty or right?
- Worked example: does it bind the state?
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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