equality before the law

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equality before the law - the right to equal protection of the laws

human right - (law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law)

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A political debt to the New Right/ Moral Majority crowd, which could mean setbacks for the legitimate rights of women, homosexuals, and others to equality before the law.

25 years ago in reason by Sanders, Sylvia / Reason

the deeply human, I will say it, universal political freedoms of belief, speech, assembly, due process, and equality before the law .

Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left by Nayak, Meghana V. / Colorlines Magazine

Echoing current debates about the Stolen Generation of Aboriginal children in the twentieth century, Windschuttle argues that ideas of equality before the law appeared in 1813 when Lieutenant-Governor Thomas Davey "issued a proclamation about reports that settlers had stolen Aboriginal children.

Reassuring "White Australia": a Review of The Fabrication of ... by Smithers, Gregory D.B. / Journal of Social History

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