The Constitution Protects the Civil Rights of Americans The Constitution does protect the civil rights of Americans. Even though some laws are passed that violate the civil rights of people in the United States, the Supreme Court corrects these errors. The cases reviewed here ask if it is okay to compose and mandate prayer in schools, whether the death penalty is Constitutional, and how much privacy is given to the American people. In the following …showed first 75 words of 759 total…

…showed last 75 words of 759 total…Amendments contained in the Bill of Rights. The decisions all agreed with what the writers of the Bill of Rights thought when they were writing the Bill of Rights. Due to these decisions, the meanings of the rights given to Americans have grown clearer than they were before, and will continue to do so as long as they are being interpreted by the Supreme Court, and other courts in the American justice system. Word Count: 755