The Civil Rights

Shanee Johnson

Lois Roskoski

Abstract

Shanee has decided to write a summary on civil rights. She talks about how important the civil rights is and has impacted the world. She talks a little bit about the first ten amendments. Shanee is explaining how the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment in the twenty-first century was the law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, ethnicity and disability.

Civil Rights are very important in this world today. All of the amendments are very important and have impacted this world very much. The civil rights are constitutionally guaranteed rights of a person given to that person virtue of that individual's status as a member of society. Since the Civil War, Congress has enacted civil rights laws based on these constitutional provisions and the Supreme Court has a steady stream of decisions that delineate the proper application of these rights and statutes. There are a couple of amendments that stand out even more that has had a bigger impact in this world today than others. There are a lot of amendments the first ten amendments to the constitution are called the bill of rights. The thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment were passed after the civil war, they also protect basic civil rights.

The first fifteen amendments made a big difference in this world today. The first ten amendments deal with many specific rights. These rights are the right to freedom and expression, the right of the people to keep and to bear arms, the right to self incrimination etc. The amendments that were passed after the civil rights really had an impact on life today. The Civil War, Congress has enacted civil rights laws based on these constitutional provisions and the Supreme Court has a steady stream of decisions that delineate the proper application of these rights and statutes.

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, gender, religion, ethnicity and disability. Unfortunately the recognition of these rights has been long and difficult. The Civil War was the great catalyst for the development of civil rights law. In the aftermath of the Civil War, Radical Republicans in the Congress were determined to protect the civil rights of African Americans. They decided to enact the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendment out of concern that future congresses could easily revoke statutory solutions.

The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and gave Congress the power to eradicate all vestiges of involuntary servitude. The Fourteenth Amendment proved to be the