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Civil rights are an essential component of democracy. They're guarantees of equal social opportunities and protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other characteristics. Examples are the rights to vote, to a fair trial, to government services, and to a public education
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President Hoover was historically and categorically a bad president when it cam to treating the Depression in the United States because he was against government intervention.
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Assuring that the harms of the British Government wouldn't be repeated
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I assume you mean the American Revolution by back then, and the reason that freedom of religion was so important (as well as many other Bill of Rights amendments) was to assure that the harms of the British Government (detailed in the Declaration of Independence) could not be repeated. Many people fled to America to escape the religious oppression of the Church of England, as it was both very strict on what religions were allowed and very closely entangled with the British Government, hence the separation of church and state in America.