Synonyms for civil right
civil right

Princeton's WordNet

1. civil rightnoun

   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

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1. • Human Right
   • Law

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1. Terrisa Bukovinac:

   Where the government applies any limitationto a protected civil right ... they generally have to satisfy a strict scrutiny standard, which is not that they cannot regulate it, but that they must show that the regulation is the least restrictive means possible to achieve a compelling government interest. And the government isnt even attempting to make that showing.

2. George Herbert Walker Bush:

   Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get there safely . everyone who changes his or her life because of crime . have been denied a basic civil right.

3. Matthew Vadum:

   There are hundreds of sanctuary jurisdictions across the country. Some left-wingers use the dreadful euphemism "civil liberties safe zones" to describe them. The phrase blurs the distinction between citizens and non-citizens by implying illegal aliens somehow possess a civil right to be present in the U.S.

4. Charlie Ha:

   The face of the typical gun owner being White, that can send a message to say, ‘oh, gun ownership is a civil right is only for White people,’ which is just factually incorrect.

5. Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson:

   The right to be in a democracy is a sacred civil right... Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua want to see every single person have the right to vote, companies like Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua, Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua stand for action on climate change. Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua also have taken a strong stand that there are still inequities, systemic injustices, that are tied to race around education and criminal justice and economic opportunity. And Will Smith and Antoine Fuqua want Apple Studios to be a force to advance those causes and to finally end these inequities.