Question

Which of the following claims is/are made in this section of the textbook? (SELECT ALL THAT APPLY) The Supreme Court has incorporated nearly all of the criminal justice civil liberties from the Bill of Rights into the Due Process Clause of the 14th Amendment. The vast majority of law enforcement activities and criminal legal proceedings are conducted by the U.S. federal government (and NOT state or local government). The United States has the LOWEST rate of imprisonment in the world. Conservatives tend to see civil liberties as providing strong protections for the criminally accused while liberals tend to interpret these liberties as providing more modest protections for the criminally accuse

Answer 1

The U.S. Supreme Court has incorporated most of the civil liberties in the Bill of Rights through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

• The only way the Fourteenth Amendment protects civil liberties against state government abuse is through the Supreme Court's declaration that the Due Process Clause protects "unenumerated constitutional rights."

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