Civil rights in united states of America

America's leading legal history journal, encompassing American, English, European, and ancient legal history issues. The journal's purpose is to further research and writing in the fields of the social history of law and the history of legal ideas and institutions.

History of civil rights

A bibliography of Oral History Interviews on the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi.
University of Southern Mississippi Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage and the Tungaloy College Archives.
A cornerstone of American public life, political culture, and private sphere, civil liberties continue to be at the forefront of modern political discourse. As government surveillance, reproductive rights, gay and lesbian rights and many other civil liberties issues repeatedly appear in the headlines of the news and media, it is important to understand the issues of civil liberties and the meaning of freedom in American life.

The History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement

__ The 1960s was a turbulent decade in American history, fraught with conflicts over issues from Civil Rights to the war in Vietnam. The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, one of the least studied social movements of the 1960s, encompassed a broad cross section of issues—from restoration of land grants, to farm workers rights, to enhanced education, to voting and political rights.

a civil law country

is an
important determinant of constitutional instability among the continental American states.
Over time, civil law states tended to adopt relatively long constitutions that had a
relatively large share of super legislation. As noted by Friedman (1988), super legislation
creates a demand in state legislatures for amending and even replacing state constitutions.
The inclusion of statutory content of constitutions in civil law states created an
environment of persistent constitutional instability that has the potential to undermine
judicial decision making. Measures to limit super legislation within state constitutions
could lead to greater stability and possibly generate improvements in political freedoms,
the courts, and even economic outcomes. Whether this lesson drawn from the continental
American states applies more generally to countries such as Iraq and the post-socialist
countries in the Former Soviet Union is an open question and an area for future research.