Slideshow prepared for a lecture on Civil Liberties for PS 101 American Government at the University of Kentucky, Fall 2007. Dr. Christopher S. Rice, Lecturer.

2. Civil Liberties Dr. Christopher S. Rice

3. Civil Liberties Individuals’ freedoms and legal protections that cannot be denied or hindered by the actions of government.

4. Embodied in Bill of Rights as prohibitions against government actions that threaten freedom.

6. Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)

7. Rights of Property in Human Beings

8. Argued Founders believed blacks had no rights whites were compelled to respect.

12. Incorporation The process used by the Supreme Court to protect individuals from actions by state and local government by interpreting the due process clause of the 14th Amendment as containing selected provisions of the Bill of Rights.

13. Freedom of Speech

14. Gitlow v. New York (1925)

15. Schenck v. United States (1919) “Clear and Present Danger” Test

20. Right to Privacy?

23. “ Strict Constructionism”