The Role Of Equality In The United States

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In the United States of America, you have millions of people from all walks of life who accompany residences, and travel through our country. Hundreds of thousands of refugees try to get pass U.S borders to get into this nation, but fail to do so due to the executive branches enforcement on laws which prevent it. However, if you were to take a brief moment and look back at the early stages of the making of states into states, you would see that we began as colonists from other countries harboring in the land of the Native Americans that technically owned the country we call home. Granted, it was over 200 years ago, but isn’t this country built on a rich foundation of history and a constitution that allows equality for all? The Constitutional

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