Definition: Legal guarantee protecting the individual from attack on personal liberties, right to fair trial, right to vote, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. (from http://www.usccr.gov/ accessed 1/31/2003)
Specify geog; consider also HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE; PRIVACY ACT see PRIVACY is also available
ExamplesPrivacy
Other names Due Process; Voting Right; Rights, Voting; Rights, Legal; Rights, Civil; Right, Voting; Right, Legal; Right, Civil; Protection, Equal; Legal Right; Voting Rights; Legal Rights; Equal Protection; Civil Right