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legal contexts, courts determine whether rights are fundamental by examining the historical foundations of those rights and by determining whether their protection is part of a longstanding tradition. In particular, courts look to whether the right is "so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental." Individual states may guarantee other rights as fundamental. That is, States may add to fundamental rights but can never diminish and rarely infringe upon fundamental rights by legislative processes. Any such attempt, if challenged, may involve a "
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Though many fundamental rights are also widely considered human rights, the classification of a right as "fundamental" invokes specific legal tests courts use to determine the constrained conditions under which the United States government and various state governments may limit these rights. In such
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Later Supreme Court justices found a way around these limitations without overturning the Slaughterhouse precedent: they created a concept called Selective Incorporation. Under this legal theory, the court used the remaining Fourteenth Amendment protections for equal protection and due process to
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was adopted in 1868 to rectify this condition, and to specifically apply the whole of the Constitution to all U.S. states. In 1873, the Supreme Court essentially nullified the key language of the Fourteenth Amendment that guaranteed all
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The Bill of Rights lists specifically enumerated rights. The Supreme Court has extended fundamental rights by recognizing several fundamental rights not specifically enumerated in the Constitution, including but not limited to:
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This set in motion a continuous process under which each individual right under the Bill of Rights was incorporated, one by one. That process has extended more than a century, with the free speech clause of the
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are a group of rights that have been recognized by a high degree of protection from encroachment. These rights are specifically identified in a
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instead of grand juries. It is possible that future cases may incorporate additional clauses of the Bill of Rights against the states.
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Article 19: Protection of certain rights regarding freedom of speech, expression, assembly, association, movement, and residence
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Not all clauses of all amendments have been incorporated. For example, states are not required to obey the
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Article 28: Freedom from attending religious instruction or worship in certain educational institutions
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Article 15: Prohibition of discrimination on grounds of religion, race, caste, sex, or place of birth
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Article 226: Power of High Courts to issue certain writs for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights
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Article 25: Freedom of conscience and free profession, practice, and propagation of religion
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Any restrictions a government statute or policy places on these rights are evaluated with
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was that only the Federal Government was bound by it. In 1835, the U.S. Supreme Court in
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Some universally recognised rights that are seen as fundamental, i.e., contained in the
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Article 32: Right to move the Supreme Court for the enforcement of Fundamental Rights
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Article 30: Right of minorities to establish and administer educational institutions
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unanimously ruled that the Bill of Rights did not apply to the states. During post-
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Article 27: Freedom from payment of taxes for promotion of any particular religion
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was considered fundamental, and thus restrictions on that right were subject to
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There are six fundamental rights recognized in the Constitution of India:
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right to maintain the minimum standards of wholesome and cultured living
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Article 23: Prohibition of trafficking in human beings and forced labor
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On a European level, fundamental rights are protected in three laws:
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Article 16: Equality of opportunity in matters of public employment
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International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
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Article 20: Protection in respect of conviction for offenses
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the right to constitutional remedies (Article 32 and 226):
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outlines four Fundamental Freedoms. These are freedom of:
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deeply rooted in this Nation's history and tradition.
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Thought, belief, opinion, and expression, including
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International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
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Article 21: Protection of life and personal liberty
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Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
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Index

Fundamental right
constitution
due process
Sustainable Development Goal 17
United Nations
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Self-determination
Liberty
Due process of law
Freedom of movement
Right to privacy
Freedom of thought
Freedom of conscience
Freedom of religion
Freedom of expression
Freedom of assembly
Freedom of association

adding to it
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Canada
Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Conscience
religion
freedom of the press
Peaceful assembly
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union
Fundamental Freedoms

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