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Civil Rights & Liberties: Crash Course Government #23

Welcome to school without the classroom! Host Craig Benzine takes you through a tour of US government and politics.

Civil Rights & Liberties: Crash Course Government #23

Season 1 Episode 23 | 7m 41s

Today, Craig is going to give you an overview of civil rights and civil liberties. Often these terms are used interchangeably, but they are actually very different. Our civil liberties, contained in the Bill of Rights, once only protected us from the federal government, but slowly these liberties have been incorporated to protect us from the states.

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