How are Civil Rights and Civil Liberties different?

Question

Explain

Answer 1

Liberties are freedoms, the power to do as one pleases.

Rights are power or privilege to which one is justly entitled. Rights are something that one may properly claim as due.

We have claimed the RIGHT to vote.  In our house, we have the liberty to do as we please, without restraint.

Answer 2

Liberties are what we have when we're born with and don't change.  Rights spell out exactly what may be vague (what constitutes free speech, what exactly is freedom of religion, etc.) and are things given to us by written law.   They are subject to change or modification depending on bills and amendments and how laws are interpreted.

Answer 3

Lets tell it like it is. Civil rights are for Blacks. Civil Liberties are for blacks and the rest of the races in this country.

Answer 4

i know that the civil rights movement was in the 1900's when blacks were treated like dogs

in the south

and I'm sorry i don't know the civil liberties

Answer 5

Civil rights are distinguished from "human rights" or "natural rights". Civil rights are rights that are bestowed by nations on those within their territorial boundaries, while natural or human rights are rights that many scholars claim that individuals have by nature of being born. For example, the philosopher John Locke (1632–1704) argued that the natural rights of life, liberty and property should be converted into civil rights and protected by the sovereign state as an aspect of the social contract. Others have argued that people acquire rights as an inalienable gift from a deity (such as God) or at a time of nature before governments were formed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_right...

Civil liberties is the name given to freedoms that protect the individual from government to a certain extent. Civil liberties set limits for government so that it cannot abuse its power and interfere with the lives of its citizens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_liber...

They are two distinct things and one can infringe upon the other.