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Equality before the law, also known as legal equality, is the principle under which all people are subject to the same laws of justice (due process). All are equal before the law.

Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law."

According to the United Nations, this principle is particularly important to the minorities and to the poor.

Thus, the law and the judges must treat everyone equally before the law regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, ethnicity, religion, disability, or other characteristics, without privilege, discrimination, or bias.

Equality before the law is one of the basic principles of liberalism.

History [edit]

In his famous funeral oration of 431 BC, the Athenian leader Pericles discussed this concept. This may be the first known instance.

"If we look to the laws, they afford equal justice to all in their private differences; if no social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations not being allowed to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way"

Classical liberalism [edit]

Classical liberalism calls for equality before the law, not for equality of outcome. Classical liberalism opposes pursuing group rights at the expense of individual rights.

Feminism [edit]

Feminists call for equality before the law regardless of gender.

Still in 1988 the later supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote: "Generalizations about the way women or men are ... cannot guide me reliably in making decisions about particular individuals". In an ACLU's s Women's Rights Project in the 1970s Ginsburg challenged the laws that gave health service benefits to wives of servicemen but not to husbands of servicewomen and prohibited women from certain businesses including running a bar alone.

However, some radical feminists have opposed equality before the law, because they think that it maintains the weak position of the weak.

Nebraska [edit]

The phrase "Equality before the law" is the motto of the State of Nebraska and appears on its state seal.

Parricide law [edit]

Article 200 of the Criminal Code of Japan, the penalty regarding parricide, was declared unconstitutional for violating the equality under the law by the Supreme Court of Japan in 1973, as a result of the trial of the Tochigi patricide case.

See also [edit]

• All men are created equal
• Civil and political rights
• Equal justice under law
• Equality of opportunity
• Global justice
• Isonomia
• Meritocracy
• Prerogative - the inverse of equality before the law
• Rule according to higher law
• Rule of law

References [edit]

1. 7., description of the UN declaration article 7, the United Nations
2. Chandran Kukathas, "Ethical Pluralism from a Classical Liberal Perspective," in The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World, ed. Richard Madsen and Tracy B. Strong, Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003), 61 ( - get this book).
3. Mark Evans, ed., Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Liberalism: Evidence and Experience (London: Routledge, 2001), 55 ( - get this book).
4. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, Written 431 B.C.E, Translated by Richard Crawley (1874), retrieved via Project Gutenberg.
5. Feminist Jurisprudence: Equal Rights or Neo-Paternalism?, Michael Weiss and Cathy Young, Policy Analysis No. 256, Cato Institute, June 19, 1996, pages 1-2
6. Jeff Rosen, "The Book of Ruth," New Republic, August 2, 1993, p. 19.
7. Martha Chamallas, "Feminist Constructions of Objectivity: Multiple Perspectives in Sexual and Racial Harassment Litigation," Texas Journal of Women and the Law 1 (1992): 95, 131, 125.
8. Dean, Meryll (2002). Japanese legal system. Routledge via Google Books. p. 535

Further reading [edit]

• Shenfield, Arthur A. "Equality Before the Law," Modern Age, Spring 1973.

See also [edit]

• List of civil rights leaders
• List of suffragists and suffregettes
• List of women's rights activists

v t e Articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights   General principles Article 1: Freedom, Egalitarianism, Dignity and Brotherhood Article 2: Universality of rights   International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Articles 1 and 2: Right to freedom from discrimination Article 3: Right to life, liberty and security of person Article 4: Freedom from slavery Article 5: Freedom from torture or cruel and unusual punishment Article 6: Right to personhood Article 7: Equality before the law Article 8: Right to effective remedy from the law Article 9: Freedom from arbitrary arrest, detention or exile Article 10: Right to a fair trial Article 11.1: Presumption of innocence Article 11.2: Prohibition of retrospective law Article 12: Right to privacy Article 13.1: Freedom of movement Article 13.2: Right of return Article 14: Right of asylum Article 15: Right to a nationality Article 16: Right to marriage and family life Article 17: Right to property Article 18: Freedom of thought, conscience and religion Article 19: Freedom of opinion and expression and information Article 20.1: Freedom of assembly Article 20.2: Freedom of association Article 21.1: Right to participation in government Article 21.2: Right of equal access to public office Article 21.3: Right to universal suffrage   International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Article 22: Right to social security Article 23.1: Right to work Article 23.2: Right to equal pay for equal work Article 23.3: Right to just remuneration Article 23.4: Right to join a trade union Article 24: Right to rest and leisure Article 25.1: Right to an adequate standard of living Article 25.2: Right to special care and assistance for mothers and children Article 26.1: Right to education Article 26.2: Human rights education Article 26.3: Right to choice of education Article 27: Right to science and culture   Context, limitations and duties Article 28: Social order Article 29.1: Social responsibility Article 29.2: Limitations of human rights Article 29.3: The supremacy of the purposes and principles of the United Nations Article 30: Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein. Human rights category · Human rights portal

v t e Substantive human rights Note: What is considered a human right is controversial and not all the topics listed are universally accepted as human rights. Civil and political Equality before the law Freedom from arbitrary arrest and detention Freedom from cruel and unusual punishment Freedom from discrimination Freedom from exile Freedom from slavery Freedom from torture Freedom of assembly Freedom of association Freedom of information Freedom of movement Freedom of religion Freedom of speech Freedom of thought Liberty Marriage Family LGBT rights Nationality Personhood Presumption of innocence Privacy Right of asylum Right to a fair trial Right to die Right to keep and bear arms Right to life Right to protest Security of person Universal suffrage Economic, social and cultural Digital rights Equal pay for equal work Fair remuneration Labor rights Right to an adequate standard of living Right to development Right to education Right to food Right to health Right to housing Right to clothing Right to Internet access Right to property Right to public participation Right of return Right to science and culture Right to social security Right to water Right to work Trade union membership Reproductive Abortion Family planning Freedom from involuntary female genital mutilation Reproductive health War and conflict Civilian Combatant Freedom from genocide Prisoner of war War rape

v t e Suffrage Basic topics Voting age Youth suffrage Right of foreigners to vote Demeny voting Women's suffrage Suffragette Universal suffrage Compulsory voting Disfranchisement By country Australia Japan Kuwait New Zealand Switzerland United Kingdom 1928 Equal Francise Act United States Foreigners District of Columbia Puerto Rico 19th Amendment 26th Amendment U.S. Voting rights for women See also Seneca Falls Convention Declaration of Sentiments Suffrage Hikes Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913 Age of candidacy List of suffragists and suffragettes List of women's rights activists Timeline of women's suffrage Timeline of first women's suffrage in majority-Muslim countries Women's suffrage organizations Youth vote

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