Equality In The 18th Century

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Since the start of the late 18th century, the government of the United States had been claiming to promote freedom for each ot its citizens and liberty to all by bestowing their citizens equality before the law, it would include series of inalienable rights and protection from violence and abuse. However, despite their claim of universal equality, there is still prevailing issues about gender and race, for example the issue of preventing females and the other race from being an American Citizen, this had been going on for two centuries now. (Rowlett, 2014). It is already a established value in the Greco-Roman and Christian thought that liberalism takes freedom as the central human and political value. In order to secure the liberty in religious,

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