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The Shadows of the Constitution (2020)

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Why Do We Need a Supreme Court Justice?

Hide learned about two kinds of rights, negative rights and positive rights. She grew up thinking that the situation was meant to protect us, the citizens. But then she learnt that's not exactly true. The due process clause falls into the cat gory of negative rights. While positive rights are active rights, rights that the government or other people have to actually provide. They include things like the right to a fair trial, to an attorney,. In some countries, the right to help care. Our constitution, for the most part, is full ofnegative rights. And i'm just really fascinated that our constitution doesn't work that way.

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