Make Your Case recreates a jury trial with judge, attorneys, and witnesses from Scholastic.
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Border Patrol agent reads the Miranda rights. |
Know Your Rights, a student rights handbook from the American Civil Liberties Union of Vermont
What are Substantive Rights?
- A basic right, such as life or liberty, seen as constituting part of the order of society and considered independent of and not subordinate to the body of human law. -The Free Farlex Dictionary
- Laws that create, define, and regulate rights
- Contracts, wills, property
What are Substantive Liberties?
- Restraints on the government that limit what the government can and can not do
- The government can not limit freedom of speech, establish an official religion, etc...
Why are they important?
- Deals with relationships between people or between people and the state
- Can offer solutions to problems or conflicts
- Based in common laws and legislature
- The Bill of Rights are examples of substantive rights and liberties
- Until the 20th century, it has derived from judicial decisions
- Used legal precedence in similar cases
- Tended to change very slowly
- Substantive laws have changed more rapidly from the 20th century on
- Congress and state legislature create statutes that take the place of common law
- Uniform Law Commission
- Formally the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
- Conducts research
- Helps states create non-partisan, well-drafted and well-written legislation
- Designed to clarify state statutes
- Click here for the ULC website
Was the National Security Agency breaching substantive rights set by the Bill of Rights?
- Click here to read Frequently Asked Questions on the NSA scandal.
- Read an interview with NSA whistle blower Edward Snowden here.
- Read about the NSA and substantive rights here.
- Click here to read about Obama's response to the controversy.
Click here for lesson plans on substantive rights from University of Nebraska-Omaha
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Religious Freedom Map. Countries in Blue enjoy complete religious freedom and are protected by substantive rights and liberties |
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Political and human rights by country Map. Green: free, Orange: partially free, Red: untouchable |
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