Fights for Rights
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Univ Pr of Kentucky
- Publish date: 09/01/2000
Description:
Americans live in a country where laws, not kings or elected officials, decide right and wrong. From the very beginning Americans have fought against laws that seemed unfair. Fights for Rights, a book for adult literacy students, offers an introduction to some of our constitutional rights.
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In straightforward, easy-to-read prose, Ronald Eades tells the stories of significant events and court cases in our nation's ongoing struggle for fair and equal rights for all citizens. After a brief description of the origins and significance of documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights, he discusses legal cases that clarified freedom of speech, freedom of religion, the rights of criminal defendants, and guaranteed constitutional rights for African Americans and for women.
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