User:Viriditas/Loss of civil liberties in the United States

The loss of civil liberties in the United States refers to the erosion, suspension, and nullification of civil liberties—rights and freedoms such as the freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, the right to privacy, and the right to due process of law—contained within the United States Bill of Rights and the United States Constitution.

History

 * American Civil War
 * Inter arma enim silent leges
 * Habeas corpus in the United States
 * Ex parte Merryman


 * Cold War
 * 1950 in the United States
 * McCarthyism
 * McCarran Internal Security Act
 * House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
 * Wilkinson v. United States
 * Project MKUltra
 * COINTELPRO


 * War on Drugs
 * 1972 in the United States
 * Rockefeller Drug Laws
 * Counterculture and the War on Drugs
 * Social control
 * Race and the War on Drugs
 * Substantive due process
 * Mandatory drug testing
 * Carceral archipelago
 * Prison-industrial complex
 * SWAT
 * 1982 in the United States
 * Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986
 * Prison Litigation Reform Act
 * Legality of the War on Drugs
 * War on Terror
 * Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
 * 2001 in the United States
 * Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists
 * Torture Memos
 * Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism
 * USA PATRIOT Act
 * Perpetual war
 * Military Commissions Act of 2006
 * Boumediene v. Bush
 * Indefinite detention
 * Warrantless wiretapping
 * Mass surveillance
 * Electronic police state
 * National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012
 * Criticism of the War on Terror
 * Unmanned aerial surveillance
 * 2013 Department of Justice investigations of reporters
 * PRISM (surveillance program)
 * Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012
 * Militarization of the police in the United States