civil right

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a legal right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship, including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of congress, including the right to legal and social and economic equality.

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civil right - right or rights belonging to a person by reason of citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to legal and social and economic equality human right - (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law) civil liberty - fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference habeas corpus - the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment freedom of religion - a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution freedom of speech - a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution freedom of the press - a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution freedom of assembly - the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution freedom to bear arms - a right guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution freedom from search and seizure - a right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US Constitution right to due process - a right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution; reaffirmed by the Fourteenth Amendment freedom from self-incrimination, privilege against self incrimination - the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself freedom from double jeopardy - a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution right to speedy and public trial by jury - a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution right to an attorney - a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution right to confront accusors - a right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution freedom from cruel and unusual punishment - a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution freedom from involuntary servitude - a civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution equal protection of the laws - a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment freedom from discrimination - immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age; guaranteed by federal laws of the United States equal opportunity - the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"