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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Social Control, Formal > Human Rights > Civil Rights
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Sociology > Social Control, Formal > Human Rights > Civil Rights

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Civil Rights  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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  • Due Process
  • Equal Protection
  • Legal Right
  • Legal Rights
  • Minority Right
  • Minority Rights
  • Protection, Equal
  • Right, Legal
  • Right, Minority
  • Rights, Legal
  • Rights, Minority
  • Rights, Voting
  • Right, Voting
  • Voting Right
  • Voting Rights

Note

  • specify geographic location if pertinent; consider also HUMAN RIGHTS & SOCIAL JUSTICE; PRIVACY ACT see PRIVACY is also available

Scope note

  • Legal guarantee protecting the individual from attack on personal liberties, right to fair trial, right to vote, and freedom from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, or national origin. (from http://www.usccr.gov/ accessed 1/31/2003)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D002961

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