| 单词 | civil right |
| 释义 | civil right (once / 1030 pages) n A civil right is a right to freedom and equality that's guaranteed to every citizen. Your civil rights protect you against discrimination. In the United States, individuals have the right to free speech, privacy, religious freedom, and many others, no matter their race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation — these are civil rights. When an employer refuses to hire someone because she's a woman or a landlord won't rent an apartment to a family because of their religious beliefs, it's a violation of their civil rights. The mid-20th century Civil Rights Movement was an organized fight to ensure the civil rights of African Americans. WORD FAMILYcivil right: civil rights USAGE EXAMPLESAnd it was here that one of the lions of the civil rights movement breathed his last on an April morning in 1968. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Professor Smith joined campaigns for civil rights in the 1960s and for a more tolerant understanding of Islam in the 2000s. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) They met as student civil rights activists walking picket lines outside Woolworth’s in Flatbush. New York Times(Jan 12, 2012) n 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 Hypo|Hyper civil liberty fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference habeas corpusthe civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment freedom of religiona civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution freedom of speecha civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution freedom of the pressa right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution freedom of assemblythe 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 armsa right guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution freedom from search and seizurea right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US Constitution right to due processa right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution; reaffirmed by the Fourteenth Amendment freedom from self-incrimination, privilege against self incriminationthe 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 jeopardya civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution right to speedy and public trial by jurya civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution right to an attorneya civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution right to confront accusorsa right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution freedom from cruel and unusual punishmenta right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution freedom from involuntary servitudea civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution equal protection of the lawsa right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment freedom from discriminationimmunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age; guaranteed by federal laws of the United States equal opportunitythe right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin 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) |
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