Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Government and Politics: Civil Rights and Liberties

In this episode, we review civil rights and civil liberties. Often these terms are used interchangeably, but they are very different. Our civil liberties, contained in the Bill of Rights, once only protected us from the federal government, but slowly these liberties have been incorporated to protect us from the states. We'll take a look at how this has happened and the supreme court cases that got us here. [7:41]