Equality before the law

Plessy decided to travel on June 7, 1892 between New Orleans and Covington, La. He paid for a first-class ticket with a vacated seat in white-only car. He was arrested and brought to New Orleans for his trial. Plessy was convicted of violating the 1890 law. He decided to file a petition against the judge in his trial. The Judge name was Hon. John H. Ferguson. In the Louisiana Supreme Court,…

Commerce Essay - How effective have Australian laws and government programs been in ensuring equality in the workplace? Introduction: The Australian laws and many government programs have been trying to guarantee equality in the workforce for many years now. Equality in the workplace takes on the same meaning as it does in everyday life. It is defined as treating everyone the same, regardless of their differences. Whether the difference is a person 's age, race, sex, sexual orientation,…

always be a part of it. Legal civil liberties, also known as fundamental justice, are for any citizen who breaks the law. Some of these liberties include: prohibition of arbitrary arrest, and the right of habeas corpus-bail or presumption of innocence. This is beneficial for any citizen who has been falsely accused or gone through injustice. Egalitarian civil liberties refers to equality rights as it makes sure that no citizen is discriminated against. This liberty is beneficial for all…

years with many people pushing for, or against, it’s progression. Nick Jensen wrote an opinion piece online ‘Gay law change may force us to divorce’ (10/06/15) about why he believes gay marriage should not be legalised and how it will “force” himself and his wife to divorce. Before the audience even reads the piece they are drawn in by Jensen’s wording in the title. By saying that the gay law change will “force” himself and his wife to divorce it causes the audience to be curious about why…

these women also benefited from the law known as Title IX. Title IX is a federal law that forbids any persons in the United States from being discriminated against or withheld from participating in events because of their gender or sex. Thanks to this beneficial law women all over the nation have the opportunity to strive and be successful just as the three women above have done. Title IX was passed in 1972 and was part of the Education Amendments Act. This law covers not only an athletic basis…

the emergence of a dynamic movement for women's rights. The widespread promotion of birth control reinforced the idea of women’s sexual emancipation. Thus, the early women’s rights movement proposed a reproductive rights discourse advocating sex equality arguments and advanced abortion rights claims that they tied to questions of political participation, work, education and social organization. They brought into the public an issue that had been forced into clandestinity for decades and…

After World War II ended, African Americans realized that the United States fought for democracy and equality in other nations but failed to achieve that domestically. Thus, civil rights groups and organization arose with the ultimate goal of getting equality and complete freedom from the chain that whites put in them. Furthermore, MLK became a well-known figure in 1955 after he was chosen to be the protest leaders and spokesmen after Rosa Park was arrested for refusing James F. Blake’s order to…

“We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others”, American actor, Will Rogers, expressed his idea about society; but Americans in 1866 had a different mindset about equality. With the Civil War starting in 1860, a great division in the country was made visible: The Southern states were in favor of slavery, and the Northern states defended that slaves were human too. As a result, a terrible battle was unleashed, but at the end, liberty won. This…

power: equality. It was the reason people came over from several different countries, and it was even one of the first things said in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights…” Today, this line is questionable. Every day, some crowd in some city is holding up a sign and screaming at the top of their voices, and they all do it for the same reason. Equality has…

phenomenal novel To Kill a Mockingbird and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Nelle Harper Lee was born in April 28, 1926 in Monroeville Alabama. Her mother was a homemaker and her father practice the law, in which played a role in the character Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird. Before Lee’s father practiced law, he once defended two African American who were accused of murdering a white man. The two black african american, father and a son, was hanged. With that father figure, Lee let that…