Freedoms and Rights

When Can Your Rights Be Restricted?

Directions: Below are listed some areas where people find restrictions to their freedoms in their personal lives. You are to, 1) decide whether these restrictions are protections for the majority or unnecessary infringements on your freedom. Then support your opinion with an argument. But first, complete the two vocab replacements with your own definition

To protect means: ______To infringe upon means: ______

Protection for Explanation: Write a detailed Regulation majority of citizens? (PM) explanation for your opinion. Why is or infringement or isn’t this a freedom our government on YOUR rights? (UI) can restrict? Only intelligent arguments win! 1. Laws which prohibit drinking and driving.

2. Laws which prohibit marijuana smoking.

3. Mandatory use of seat belts law.

4. Laws which prohibit smoking in public places.

5. Laws which require helmets for bicyclists.

6. No cell phones in school.

7. Laws which limit your car’s speed to 55 m.p.h.