Equality Vs. Inequality In The United States

America has been in turmoil for decades now dealing with the issues of equality versus inequality. We as Americans want equality, we see it as a last step to becoming the greatest country in the history of the world present and past. In Cal Jillson’s American Government the 8th edition he explains in chapters thirteen and fourteen the battles for equality in the United States. Furthermore, in the following paper there will be information from Cal Jillson’s American Government showing the constitutional liberties dealing with Civil rights. I will do this in three or four paragraphs using text from chapter thirteen in the book listed above. Then to back these statements I shall use chapter Fourteen to build up my statements above, I will also do this in three or four paragraphs. After all of this I will be able to prove that equality is the number one problem today in America whether it be racial, sex, or religious. …show more content…
The following is a breakdown of this entire section which is like an introduction of the chapter. This section opens by stating that there are a set of rights that everyone believes they are entitled to (Jillson 414). Then it goes on to back this statement with a quote from Thomas Jefferson when he said, “all men are created equal” and “are endowed with by their creator with certain inalienable rights (Jillson 414). Most people know that the rights he speaks of are in the Declaration of Independence and they are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness (Jillson 414). As I understood through the text it is very easy to say everyone has these rights but it is not so easy to grant these rights to everyone. Though in America we try to guarantee these rights we begin to have problems when we start to integrate them into all parts of