Learning Objectives

  1. Understand the meaning of rights or freedoms in a democracy and why we can’t always have all the rights we want

  2. Understand the value (and cost) of having a Bill of Rights

  3. Understand the civil liberties that restrict government action

  4. Understand when groups have the right to be treated equally by the law and when they do not

  5. Understand how different groups have battled for rights to equal treatment