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civil rights legislation  

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  • Civil rights legislation is a broad term that may be applied to any laws or legal rulings designed to protect the basic human rights of individuals anywhere in the world. These rights include any of a range of principles that ensure freedoms, liberties, and general happiness to which all humans are considered entitled from birth, such as free speech, religious freedom, participation in electoral processes, due legal processes in the court system, and so forth. [Source: Encyclopedia of Group Processes & Intergroup Relations; Civil Rights Legislation]

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