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Prior to the creation of the Bill of Rights, Georgia's previous four Constitutions protected only a relative few civil liberties. [1] With the end of the American Civil War in 1865 the abolition of slavery was added to the Bill of Rights in Section I, the Rights of Persons. Also added to that Section, in 1877, was a prohibition against whipping ...
Article One describes the Georgia Bill of Rights. These are the Rights of Persons, the Origin and Structure of Government and other General Provisions. [41] The first Section, the Rights of Persons, lists twenty-eight paragraphs of individual rights. Many of these rights are similar to the rights listed in the United States Bill of Rights. Yet ...
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Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee and North Carolina to the north, South Carolina and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Florida to the south, and Alabama to the west. Of the 50 United States, Georgia is the 24th-largest by area and eighth most populous.
Georgia lawmakers are revisiting a nearly decade-old fight over whether the state needs to protect religious rights from being trampled by state and local governments in a measure opponents say ...
In 2003, Georgia congressman Jack Kingston proposed another national student bill of rights, House Bill 318. This bill, also rejected in Congress, was not an all-encompassing student bill of rights but was narrowly defined to address academic freedom. The congressman found that "at almost every American university, conservative professors are ...
Georgia's parliament will shortly begin debating a wide-ranging "family values" bill that will include bans on "LGBT propaganda" and gender reassignment surgery, the speaker of parliament was ...
FILE - Rep. Jesse Petrea (R-Savnnah) on the Georgia General Assembly House floor. House Bill 1105, authored by Petrea, passed the state House on Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024.