{"id":352,"date":"2006-10-22T22:52:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T02:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=352"},"modified":"2006-10-23T21:02:37","modified_gmt":"2006-10-24T01:02:37","slug":"fast-fact-civil-rights-defined-by-merriam-webster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/fast-fact-civil-rights-defined-by-merriam-webster\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast Fact: &#8220;CIVIL RIGHTS&#8221; defined by Merriam Webster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CIVIL RIGHTS defined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/dictionary\/civil%20rights\">Merriam Webster<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <strong>civil rights<\/strong><br \/>\nOne entry found for civil rights.<\/p>\n<p>Main Entry: civil rights<br \/>\nFunction: noun plural<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> the nonpolitical rights of a citizen; especially : the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to United States citizens by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution and by acts of Congress <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.answers.com\/topic\/civil-rights\">from ANSWERS.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>civil rights<br \/>\npl.n.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The rights belonging to an individual by virtue of citizenship, especially the fundamental freedoms and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution and by subsequent acts of Congress, including civil liberties, due process, equal protection of the laws, and freedom from discrimination<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>.<br \/>\nadj. or civ\u00b7il-rights (s\u012dv&#8217;\u0259l-r\u012bts&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>Does anybody else note the word <em><strong>citizen<\/strong><\/em> here?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIVIL RIGHTS defined by Merriam Webster civil rights One entry found for civil rights. Main Entry: civil rights Function: noun plural the nonpolitical rights of a citizen; especially : the rights of personal liberty guaranteed to United States citizens by the 13th and 14th amendments to the Constitution and by acts of Congress More&#8230;from ANSWERS.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}