| has gloss | (noun) 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
civil right |
| lexicalization | eng: civil right |
| subclass of | (noun) (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)
human right |
| has subclass | (noun) fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference
civil liberty |
| has subclass | (noun) the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment
habeas corpus |
| has subclass | (noun) a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
freedom of religion |
| has subclass | (noun) a civil right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
freedom of speech |
| has subclass | (noun) a right guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
freedom of the press |
| has subclass | (noun) the right to peaceably assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the First Amendment to the US Constitution
freedom of assembly |
| has subclass | (noun) a right guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution
freedom to bear arms |
| has subclass | (noun) a right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US Constitution
freedom from search and seizure |
| has subclass | (noun) a right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution; reaffirmed by the Fourteenth Amendment
right to due process |
| has subclass | (noun) the civil right (guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself
privilege against self incrimination, freedom from self-incrimination |
| has subclass | (noun) a civil right guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution
freedom from double jeopardy |
| has subclass | (noun) a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution
right to speedy and public trial by jury |
| has subclass | (noun) a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution
right to an attorney |
| has subclass | (noun) a right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US Constitution
right to confront accusors |
| has subclass | (noun) a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US Constitution
freedom from cruel and unusual punishment |
| has subclass | (noun) a civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution
freedom from involuntary servitude |
| has subclass | (noun) a right guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and by the due-process clause of the Fifth Amendment
equal protection of the laws |
| has subclass | (noun) immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age; guaranteed by federal laws of the United States
freedom from discrimination |
| has subclass | (noun) the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin
equal opportunity |
| has subclass | c/Civil rights |