Historically, what did a civil liberty or civil right do?

Born in braintree (present-day quincy),  massachusetts, on october 30, 1735, john adams was the oldest of john and susanna boylston adams’ three sons. the elder adams was a farmer and shoemaker who also served as a congregationalist deacon and an official in local government

The following passage describes an example of __negative externality in the 1980s, manufacturing power plants in the midwest burned coal with high sulfur content, which when released as smoke, mixed with moisture in the atmosphere to create an acid that blew into canada and new england. the acid fell to the earth in the form of rain, killing fish and causing deforestation and building deterioration.