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| chapter = A Human Rights Lens on U.S. History: Human Rights at Home and Human Rights Abroad | volume = III | page = 4 | publisher = Praeger Publishers | year = 2007 | isbn = 0-275-98824-4}}</ref><ref>Brennan, William, J., ed. Schwartz, Bernard, The Burger Court: counter-revolution or confirmation?, Oxford University Press US, 1998, {{ISBN|0-19-512259-3}}, page 10</ref>、[[州宪法]]、[[国际法]]、联邦州份法案保障的权利。除法律保障外，美国人权更受[[公民倡议]]和[[公民投票]]保障。[[美国联邦法院]]有权审理[[国际人权法]]，并视国际法为[[美国法律]]。<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3655/is_199807/ai_n8788427/pg_4/?tag=content;col1|title=Human rights in the United States courts: The role of lawyers|last=Schneebaum|first=Steven M.|date=Summer 1998|publisher=Washington & Lee Law Review|accessdate=June 10, 2009|archive-date=2011-11-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111105065022/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3655/is_199807/ai_n8788427/pg_4/?tag=content;col1|dead-url=no}}</ref>
美国的人权状况备受争议，受到了国际方面的广泛关注和批评<ref>{{cite web|date=2020|title=United States|url=https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/united-states|publisher=Human Rights Watch|access-date=2020-08-30|archive-date=2021-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210417032048/https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2020/country-chapters/united-states|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=2011|title=The top 100 offenders|newspaper=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/Tables/4_col_tables/0,,258330,00.html|accessdate=2020-08-30|archive-date=2019-01-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117124551/https://www.theguardian.com/Tables/4_col_tables/0,,258330,00.html|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=November 25, 2008|title=Global Human Rights Index|url=http://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/reports/ReportHRI_-4-2.pdf|publisher=Green Party of UK|page=25|access-date=2020-08-30|archive-date=2019-08-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190821224815/https://www.greenparty.org.uk/assets/files/reports/ReportHRI_-4-2.pdf|dead-url=no}}</ref><ref name="Alston2">{{cite web|last=Alston|first=Philp|authorlink=Philip Alston|date=December 15, 2017|title=Statement on Visit to the USA, by Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights|url=http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E|access-date=December 20, 2017|website=|publisher=[[Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights|OHCHR]]|archive-date=2019-10-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005194945/https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=22533&LangID=E|dead-url=no}}</ref>。雖然人權在美国受法律保障及公眾認同，但[[死刑]]、族群政策、[[持枪权]]、[[警察暴力]]等威胁仍存在。PBS newsHour報導稱，美国有人因無法支付罰款而入獄；<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/return-debtors-prison/|title=Return of the debtors' prison? Many jailed for inability to pay fines|website=PBS NewsHour|access-date=2020-08-30|archive-date=2017-09-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914135641/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/return-debtors-prison/|dead-url=no}}</ref>[[聯合國人權委員會]]等人權機構稱，美國對窮人進行嚴酷的政策壓迫；<ref>[http://www.nlchp.org/U.N._Human_Rights_Committee_Calls_U.S._Criminalization_of_Homelessness_Cruel,_Inhuman,_and_Degrading.pdf U.N. Human Rights Committee Calls U.S. Criminalization of Homelessness "Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170824224248/https://www.nlchp.org/U.N._Human_Rights_Committee_Calls_U.S._Criminalization_of_Homelessness_Cruel,_Inhuman,_and_Degrading.pdf |date=August 24, 2017 }}. ''[[The National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty]],'' March 27, 2014. Retrieved May 12, 2014.</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last= Haymes|editor1-first= Stephen|editor2-last= Vidal de Haymes|editor2-first= Maria|editor3-last= Miller|editor3-first= Reuben|title= The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States|url= http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415673440|location= London|publisher= [[Routledge]]|date= 2015|isbn= 978-0415673440|page= [https://books.google.com/books?id=qnHfBQAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PA346#v=onepage&q&f=false 346]|access-date= 2020-08-30|archive-date= 2015-06-17|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150617164555/http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415673440/|dead-url= no}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=|first=|date=June 4, 2018|title="Contempt for the poor in US drives cruel policies," says UN expert|url=http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23172&LangID=E|work=OHCHR|location=|access-date=July 28, 2018|archive-date=2019-09-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190917141810/https://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23172&LangID=E|dead-url=no}}</ref> 隱私國際的調研中稱，美國政府進行的大規模監控項目侵犯公民的隱私權。<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/surveillance-monitor-2007-international-country-rankings|title=|author=|date=|work=|publisher=|accessdate=|language=|format=|archive-date=2016-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160108235258/https://www.privacyinternational.org/reports/surveillance-monitor-2007-international-country-rankings|dead-url=no}}</ref>
2006年[[德国之声]]在评论2005年美国发布的《[[国别人权报告]]》时认为，尽管[[美国媒体]]享受充分的自由使得美国政府的行为受到监督，但是这个监督机制并不能完全杜绝践踏人权的现象：由于[[关塔那摩湾拘押中心]]虐囚事件、[[美國中央情報局]][[東歐]][[黑監獄]]、美國中央情報局以非法手段[[逮捕]]和押送[[恐怖活動]][[犯罪嫌疑人]]的種種作為，美国在人权问题上的公信力正在不断下降<ref>[http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1928791,00.html 评论：美国人权法官威望大打折扣] {{Wayback|url=http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1928791,00.html |date=20061124154805 }} 德国之声 2006-03-09</ref>。
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