CIVIL RIGHT

Pronunciation (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does civil right mean? 

• CIVIL RIGHT (noun)
  The noun CIVIL RIGHT has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CIVIL RIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CIVIL RIGHT (noun)

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("civil right" is a kind of...):

human right ((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))

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "civil right"):

civil liberty (fundamental individual right protected by law and expressed as immunity from unwarranted governmental interference)

freedom from discrimination (immunity from discrimination on the basis of race or sex or nationality or religion or age; guaranteed by federal laws of the United States)

equal protection of the laws (a right guaranteed by the 14th amendment to the US constitution and by the due-process clause of the 5th amendment)

freedom from involuntary servitude (a civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US constitution)

freedom from cruel and unusual punishment (a right guaranteed by the 8th amendment to the US constitution)

right to confront accusors (a right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US constitution)

right to an attorney (a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the US constitution)

right to speedy and public trial by jury (a civil right guaranteed by the 6th amendment to the United States constitution)

freedom from double jeopardy (a civil right guaranteed by the 5th amendment to the US constitution)

freedom from self-incrimination; privilege against self incrimination (the civil right (guaranteed by the 5th amendment to the United States Constitution) to refuse to answer questions or otherwise give testimony against yourself)

right to due process (a right guaranteed by the 5th amendment to the US constitution; reaffirmed by the 14th amendment)

freedom from search and seizure (a right guaranteed by the 4th amendment to the US constitution)

freedom to bear arms (a right guaranteed by the 2nd amendment to the US constitution)

freedom of assembly (the right peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for redress of grievances; guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution)

freedom of the press (a right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution)

freedom of speech; freedom of religion (a civil right guaranteed by the 1st amendment to the US constitution)

habeas corpus (the civil right to obtain a writ of habeas corpus as protection against illegal imprisonment)

equal opportunity (the right to equivalent opportunities for employment regardless of race or color or sex or national origin)