The civil-rights statutes protect people from wilful deprivation of constitutional rights.公民权利法令保障了人们的宪法权利不会被任意剥夺。The court will rule on whether the prisoner's constitutional rights were violated.法院将对这名囚犯的宪法权利是否遭到侵犯作出裁决。He argues that Congress trampled the constitutional rights of legal immigrants in the new welfare reform law.他认为，国会在新的福利改革法中侵犯了合法移民享有的宪法所赋予的权利。