The Civil Liberty I chose is Freedom of speech. Its origin dates from a long time ago and it is believed that it may have risen in the late 6th or early 5th C BC, in Athens. In the U.S., freedom of speech was set up in the First Amendment of the Constitution in 1791.
Freedom of speech was established because, as human beings, we communicate through speaking, writing, clothing, protesting, and many other ways. Communication is an essential part of our lives, and the degree of freedom to communicate has an important impact in our society and the fundation of our democracy.
And that is what makes this Civil Liberty the most important. We are allowed to set a socially relevant communication, whether to comment on government actions, criticize over public charges or report about violation of rights, and it is protected by Freedom of Speech.
Some of the most important existing Civil Rights are the Voting Rights. These were established in 1965, during a time when the Civil Rights Movement was standing strong in America.
The act that protects them is the Voting Rights Act, and President Lyndon B. Johnson was the responsible for turning it into a law in 1965. Later on, the Congress amended it on five occasions to enhance its protections even more.
Voting Rights were established to forbid racial discrimination in voting, and are important because they were the result of years of extreme confrontation between white people and African Americans, providing equality for our society to choose its representatives.
