The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Where do you go if someone is threatening your personal rights? Do you
go to the police, or maybe to the government? What if the police and government
are the parties threatening your rights? All you have to do is just call the
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). Sounds like a commercial doesn't it. The
ACLU blankets the United States with its legal protection. It is involved in so
many aspects of the fight for civil liberties that it is difficult to cover it
all. To fully understand what the ACLU has done for the United States would take
much longer than I have. Therefore, I have picked a couple of incidents that, to
me, exemplify what the ACLU is, and how they have affected our society.
The ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, is an organization that began
the struggle to protect the civil liberties of the American people. The ACLU is
defined as being a US non-partisan organization offering legal aid and other
assistance in cases of violation of civil liberties.(Websters) Civil liberties
contain a substantial body of law including: freedom of speech and press,
separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, due process of law,
equal protection, and privacy.(Walker 3) The Encyclopedia of the Constitution
defines civil liberties as "those rights that an individual citizens may assert
against the government." In a formal sense, the ACLU is a private voluntary
organization dedicated to defending the Bill of Rights. Officially established
in 1920, the
ACLU now claims over 270,000 members. With offices in most of the states and the
District of Columbia the ACLU justifiably calls itself " the nation's largest
law firm."(Walker 4)
The ACLU, despite its noble goal, has a terrible public image. The
reason for such hatred or support is the fact that civil liberty cases generally
involve moral and personal issues. These issues are those that incite feelings
from all corners of society. The rights the ACLU... [continues]
Where do you go if someone is threatening your personal rights? Do you
go to the police, or maybe to the government? What if the police and government
are the parties threatening your rights? All you have to do is just call the
ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union). Sounds like a commercial doesn't it. The
ACLU blankets the United States with its legal protection. It is involved in so
many aspects of the fight for civil liberties that it is difficult to cover it
all. To fully understand what the ACLU has done for the United States would take
much longer than I have. Therefore, I have picked a couple of incidents that, to
me, exemplify what the ACLU is, and how they have affected our society.
The ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, is an organization that began
the struggle to protect the civil liberties of the American people. The ACLU is
defined as being a US non-partisan organization offering legal aid and other
assistance in cases of violation of civil liberties.(Websters) Civil liberties
contain a substantial body of law including: freedom of speech and press,
separation of church and state, free exercise of religion, due process of law,
equal protection, and privacy.(Walker 3) The Encyclopedia of the Constitution
defines civil liberties as "those rights that an individual citizens may assert
against the government." In a formal sense, the ACLU is a private voluntary
organization dedicated to defending the Bill of Rights. Officially established
in 1920, the
ACLU now claims over 270,000 members. With offices in most of the states and the
District of Columbia the ACLU justifiably calls itself " the nation's largest
law firm."(Walker 4)
The ACLU, despite its noble goal, has a terrible public image. The
reason for such hatred or support is the fact that civil liberty cases generally
involve moral and personal issues. These issues are those that incite feelings
from all corners of society. The rights the ACLU... [continues]
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