Founded in 1920, theAmerican Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)is one of the oldest interest groups in the United States. The mission of this non-partisan, not-for-profit organization is “to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the C...
Perhaps the most-often cited of all the civil liberties in the Constitution, the First Amendment is well known for guaranteeingfreedom of religionandfreedom of speech. But in fact, it offers five key civil freedoms: freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition, the latter two allo...
but at least he was willing to stand up against slavery. That isn’t “individual liberty” that is BS. In other words, they are willing to use state power (and thus not be classically liberal) to ensure social justice. When social liberalism is embraced by progressives like Bernie Sanders...
way back in the Bush era, I started reading blogs about libertarianism and I started reading blogs about feminism, and I was like, cool, I’m a libertarian, I’m a feminist, they’re both philosophies that are rooted in equal rights and respect for the individual. Nobody should have a...
There are many different DPAs around the world. In the EU, there is a centralized DPA known as the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) as well as individual DPAs for member states. In the U.S., there isn't a singular federal law equivalent to the GDPR, but there are some federa...
Sir Menzies Campbell was forced, somewhat contrary to expectations, to fight hard for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats. But the political honeymoon that might have followed his comfortable victory never came. Nor did the hoped-for gains in the local elections. Indeed, ever since he took...
Liberal politicians are politicians that champion the views of liberalism, including personal liberties, social safety nets...
women continue to face discrimination in jobs traditionally held exclusively by men. While the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations in 1948, embodies civil rights, the provisions are not legally binding. Thus, there is no worldwide standard. Instead, individual natio...
which has to be previously defined by the law. In this amendment, the accused individual is also given the right to hear the nature and cause of the crime that they are being accused of, be confronted with opposing witnesses, have the ability to bring their own witnesses, and have some ...
Individual rights are those considered so essential that they warrant specific statutory protection from interference. While the U.S. Constitution, for example, divides and restricts the powers of the federal and state governments to check their own and each other’s power, it also expressly ensures...