Equality before the law

Free Blacks Were Treated Differently Equality has been a problem in American history for many years, especially for African Americans. Even in the past when slaves would earn or become free blacks, they were still treated as less than free whites with fewer rights. The law would get in the way of African Americans having equal rights like those who had light skin. Even after they fought with whites in the Civil War, they were still treated differently. A lot were freed from slavery though…

tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”(brainyquotes.com) Human equality was not always a “thing” in the U.S there used to be slaves. After the Civil war, there was no slaves anymore after the union army won the war. this gave african americans a little bit more of freedom, but did not get equal rights. later in 1964 that all changed after Martin Luther King Came along. Before, he was a baptist minister and a educated african american.and people are always fighting…

He would assume command of 500 men they would go to the south to try to get capture Fort Wagner. In this battle Robert Shaw would die along with two other officers. But before this battle Robert Shaw would write a letter to his friend that he met in New York. Shaw’s soldiers would talk highly of his bravery and they respected him. His command others of the 54th didn’t think as highly for his co-officers saying they weren’t…

Mesopotamia created a law code that solidified the class distinctions present in the society by treating each class differently under the law, while Solon of Athens tried to create balance and compromise between the people by creating four classes based on property that correlated to political power. The Twelve Tables of Rome gave the illusion of equality between the Patricians, the upper class, and the Plebeians, the lower class, by awarding them the same rights under the law, but in reality,…

only make it seem that way when, in reality, equality is not achieved in the way they hoped. The novella Anthem, by Ayn Rand, is similar to “Harrison Bergeron”, by Kurt Vonnegut, because both stories evince complacency to laws, evince opposition to rules against knowledge, and evince suppression to knowledge so no one is smarter than their peers or authority. “Harrison Bergeron” shows a similarity to Anthem through being complacent and smug towards laws that their societies are forced to…

society with certain rights, and forced the acceptance of the 13th amendment in all states in the Union. Individuals who only days before were slaves and were owned indefinitely suddenly owned themselves and were allowed to answer only to themselves. Unfortunately, reconstruction proved to be a great failure for the blacks and only offered a glimpse of freedom before condemning them back toward slavery through the Black Codes, Johnson’s Presidential…

Carley Phelps Mrs. Holt Constitutional Law Studies October 5th, 2017 The Vital Cases Leading to True Equality: Plessy vs. Ferguson & Brown vs. Board of Education Without two people, by the names of Homer Plessy and Linda Brown, segregation and discrimination based on the color of people's skin may still exist in the country today. As many major events in history lead to the equality America obtains now, there are two imperative Supreme Court cases that stand out most significantly; Plessy vs…

7.4 billion people live of Earth and 3.52 billion of those people are female. Sexism and gender inequality started long before anyone can remember, but lately, in the United States, those injustices have been reduced. Unlike women in America, women in the Middle East still suffer greatly due to inequality. The lack of respect for women in the Middle East has caused severe inequality and cruel social stereotypes. One of the biggest examples of sexism in the Middle East is the hardship…

Machiavelli took a very cynical and harsh approach to leadership whereas Rousseau, in “The Social Contract”, took an open minded approach. Rousseau’s ideas were far more convincing because he was driven by passion for truth, and through the test of time equality and liberty how proved to be the keys to a prosperous state, while Machiavelli’s harsh tactics have all crumbled under serious stress. As to not discredit…

Canada. He was elected in 1957, forming the Progressive Conservative Government, and from the beginning of his campaign, he made it a promise that he would create a Bill of Rights for Canada. He was a very progressive Prime Minister who believed in equality and fairness, “Diefenbaker brought diversity into government- he appointed the first woman to a cabinet post and the first Aboriginal person to the Senate.” (Canadian Decades 1960, p. 20) Citizens of Canada appreciated his dedication, and his…