How does the government protect the rights of citizens

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What powers protect citizens rights?

Education, Skills and Learning

Feb 13, 2017

Back to basics ... every government should protect, provide for and invest in its people Image: Claire Anderson

Anne-Marie Slaughter

Chief Executive Officer, New America

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How does the government protect the citizens?

The idea of government as protector requires taxes to fund, train and equip an army and a police force; to build courts and jails; and to elect or appoint the officials to pass and implement the laws citizens must not break.

What is the government's role in protecting these rights?

The purpose of the federal government is broadly to protect the people's inalienable rights and property; limited in the powers granted for other purposes. Our written Constitution sets out the limitations on the powers that the elected, appointed and hired officials of the federal government may exercise.

How can the government protect the rights and property of the people *?

The Constitution protects property rights through the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments' Due Process Clauses and, more directly, through the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause: “nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” There are two basic ways government can take property: (1) outright ...

What powers protect citizens rights?

The Tenth Amendment gives states all powers not specifically given to the federal government, including the power to make laws relating to public health. But, the Fourteenth Amendment places a limit on that power to protect people's civil liberties.