Equality before the law

perversion of the original ideals of the revolution because the ideals of the revolution were to gain more equality for the people of France, and the punishments that occurred were necessary and the cultural changes, in fact, benefited the citizens. As seen through the voices of the Third Estate and its supporters, one of the fundamental goals of the French Revolution was to gain equality and freedom for citizens. In the Town of…

gradually adopt perspectives aligned more so with equality. In Geoffrey Trease's novel, Cue for Treason, one of the protagonists, Katherine Russell, whom in Elizabethan England, embarked on an adventurous and life-threatening journey as an advocate for equality. As a result of her odyssey, she repeatedly portrayed herself as a capable, daring and intelligent person, and therefore, a remarkable ambassador for equality. In Elizabethan England, equality was constantly reinforced amongst the…

court cases and fighting for equality she has made a huge impact on the generation coming. Ginsburg has done it all from becoming first in her classes, fighting for gender equality, to even becoming popular on social media. All her success did not come easy though, she overcame multiple obstacles and stuff time to get where she is now. Ginsburg was born into a low class family in Brooklyn, in a working class neighborhood. The first of her struggles came when a few days before her high school…

government of Fahrenheit 451 believes in equality and attempts to create a world that violence and evil are non-existent. To create a world of tranquility, the government must implement communistic ideals by heavily censoring their society and inevitably banning all works of literature. The society outlaws books, to prevent conflict due to the fact humans detest and loathe ideas that are not their own. However, their ideals cause the masses to break the law and disobey their government as shown…

everything a person does. Everything from your job to what you do during the day is controlled. Something terrible must have happened in their past because why else would you remove technology and burn all the books? “We must never speak of the times before the Great Rebirth, else we are sentenced to 3 years in corrective punishment” (Rand, 19). Or even make it illegal to talk about. Whatever happened was bad enough to cause them to completely restart. They went from a time with electric…

There are those out there that want better for us and their children’s children. Many that have gone before us have sacrificed their lives just so that we might have a better tomorrow. They changed history but also became a part of it. In Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896) Homer Plessy sat in the white segregated railroad car and was imprisoned on the bases that he was a black man, who was violating the law since he was called himself black but sitting in the white railroad car. He was light skinned…

this is a man's world this is a man's world but it wouldn't be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl. Inequality has a horrible history of it's story and play out some of those things still to this day. How would the world shape women's equality if seen from a moral and ethical standpoint. It would definitely make our current world and country think about the way women are looked upon. Ethical perspectives on the other hand would give a more of a passionate argument all depending…

struggles. The middle and lower classes, without liberty or equality, were unable to make changes in their lives or a difference in French society. In the early 1800s, the French economy began to decline, causing food prices to go up and business profits to go down. This caused alarm, frustration and anger among the middle and lower classes. While the tension grew, Enlightenment ideas…

rights of citizens, promotes equality, and ensures fairness in administration (Asia Pacific Economics Blog). Democracy puts emphasis on protecting the rights of citizens. The 14th Amendment in the United States Constitution is a good example of protecting the rights of citizens. The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States and forbade the states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any…

American state may deny anyone within the jurisdiction equal protection of the law. After the Civil War, legislators sought to protect freed slaves and their new rights. On July 9, 1868, the Fourteenth Amendment became law and began preserving American rights across all previously dividing factors. The creation of the Equal Protection Act was a turning point, as before it’s conception, the Bill of Rights was the only law that protected citizens rights and addresses the aspects of said…