Category: Civil Liberties

Abstract The focus of the report is the Civil Liberty-Homeland Security Debate. The report offers a historical context of security and liberty. Following this, a discussion of the primary issues in this context is conducted. The report concludes by arguing that the counter-measures have rarely addressed the dissent, calling for a long-term solution through political…

The latest pandemic of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 poses a profound challenge, not only to public health structures around the globe, but additionally reaches deeply into very primary values on which many international locations are built. As the international wide variety of COVID-19 infections increases, political commentators and scientists are elevating necessary questions: What does…

Are discriminatory practices tolerable if they guarantee national security? According to a study by Darren W. Davis; Brian D. Silver of the Midwest Political Science Association, “a majority of people are willing to concede some civil liberties and freedoms [in exchange for national security]…” (Davis et al., 10). Many consider national security a more basic…

Liberalism is the belief in individual freedom due to historical repression and exploitation found previously in society and still to this day. It promotes ideologies of self-interest, but due to societal circumstances has progressed though time into many different strands of liberalism. These include classic liberalism and modern liberalism: classic liberalism is a political ideology…

There have been many issues of discrimination and unequal treatment for hundreds of years. It has only been until recently that those who have been brought down are now getting a chance to have their voices heard. This was all possible through the implementation of civil rights and civil liberties. These rights and liberties are…

The author of the source believes in an ideal society with elements of collectivism and authoritarianism. They are critical of some of the elements of democracies, however, the system of democracy is still put into use in the source and within that some of the liberal ideas. Because of that, we can infer that the…

The European convention of human rights is a product of the council for European an international organization on human rights (consisting of 47 member states). The primary purpose of the council was to foster human rights around the world and the secondary purpose was to protect the rule of law. In order to insure the…