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Civil liberties are protections from the power of governments. Examples include freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and trial by jury. These are usually created and protected by a constitution.See also: human rights, civil rights.
All western democracies (as well as many other countries) have constitutions that protect civil liberties. The following sections of this article present a few examples.
1 United States
The United States Constitution, especially its Bill of Rights, protects many civil liberties.
2 Canada
The Constitution of Canada includes the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which guarantees many of the same rights as the US constitution, with the notable exception of protection against establishment of religion. (Such protection is not practical, since the Anglican Church of Canada is nominally the state religion.) But the Charter does protect freedom of religionFreedom of worship Freedom of religion is the individual's right or freedom to hold whatever religious beliefs he or she wishes, or none at all. This freedom extends mere freedom of thought by adding the freedom of worship and the freedom of religious con.
3 United Kingdom
The UKThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a state in Western Europe, usually known simply as the United Kingdom the UK Britain or less accurately as Great Britain . The UK was formed by a series of Acts of Union which united the formerly has no formal written constitution, however it is a signatory to the European Convention on Human RightsThe European Convention on Human Rights ( 1950) was adopted under the auspices of the Council of Europe† to protect human rights and fundamental freedoms. Most Council of Europe member states are party to the Convention; those that are not are requ (ECHR) which covers both human rights and civil liberties, and has passed the Human Rights ActThe Human Rights Act 1998 is a United Kingdom Act of Parliament which received Royal Assent on November 9, 1998, and came into force on October 1, 2000. Its aim is to incorporate into UK law the rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights., which forces compliance between the treaty and UK law. After the September 11, 2001 attacksThe attacks of September 11, 2001 were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. Nineteen members of the al-Qaida militant Islamist group hijacked four aircraft. They crashed two into the two towers of the the UK claimed a state of emergency (as permitted by Article 15 of the ECHR) and the derogation from Article Five in order to allow the indefinite detention without trial of foreign nationals suspected of involvement with terrorismTerrorism refers to the use of violence against noncombatants for the purpose of achieving a political, religious or socio-economic goal. Terrorist acts can be carried out by individuals or groups, and are sometimes sponsored by governments as an alternat. The government would rather deport these individuals, but this is prohibited by Article Three of the ECHR, which can not be opted out from according to Article 15. See also British national identity cardAfter many years of discussion through successive governments, in 2003 Home Secretary David Blunkett announced that the British government intends to introduce national identity cards linked to a national identity database. The cards and database will rec.
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