1. I learned about different cases which helped improve civil rights such as Brown v. Board, Roe v. Wade etc.
2. What surprised me was that the government has restriction on how many people can immigrate to the U.S.
3. I do not agree with the Patriot Act because it violates most to all of our civil rights on the pretext of "hunting down terrorists"
4. It's important because it helps us better understand how the government is run and what's actually going on with our government today.
5. It can improve by making GITMS more about government than current events. Also if Fabian sat down during notes.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Discussion Questions
1. World War II changed America by being portrayed as defenders of liberty around the world against Nazism, Fascism, and totalitarianism. It also changed its ideas on individual liberties and government power.
2. The major tensions included World War II, McCarthyism, Cold War, national identity, free speech, civil rights struggles, and national security.
3. She meant that the Supreme Court didn't give as much individual rights as they did before World War II.
Background Essay
After World War II, the Supreme Court changed its course when it came to giving more individual liberties to people. The U.S. now saw itself as a preserver of democracy and freedom to the world and wanted to show it to the rest of the world by giving more civil rights to minorities (namely African Americans). It took twenty years after World War II for the Supreme Court to outlaw poll taxes and literacy tests by passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which gave voting rights to African Americans.
'Rights are relative and not absolute'
Rights are given to people, but to an extent where it doesn't infringe on someone's rights.
1. World War II changed America by being portrayed as defenders of liberty around the world against Nazism, Fascism, and totalitarianism. It also changed its ideas on individual liberties and government power.
2. The major tensions included World War II, McCarthyism, Cold War, national identity, free speech, civil rights struggles, and national security.
3. She meant that the Supreme Court didn't give as much individual rights as they did before World War II.
Background Essay
After World War II, the Supreme Court changed its course when it came to giving more individual liberties to people. The U.S. now saw itself as a preserver of democracy and freedom to the world and wanted to show it to the rest of the world by giving more civil rights to minorities (namely African Americans). It took twenty years after World War II for the Supreme Court to outlaw poll taxes and literacy tests by passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which gave voting rights to African Americans.
'Rights are relative and not absolute'
Rights are given to people, but to an extent where it doesn't infringe on someone's rights.
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