The new states paid lip service to republican ideas of equality before the law.
But equality before the law, and some other kinds of liberal equality, can be universally granted without infringing anybody's rights.
They are rooted in the principle of equality before the law, whereby the least of us can be protected from the most powerful.
The Right, as embodied by the Tea Party, seeks individual liberty and equality before the law where each may earn as merit warrants.
Certain ideas about equality are woven into the fabric of the liberal state, and quite inseparable from it: first and foremost, equality before the law.
Clearly, this approach violates the principle of equality before the law.
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As Russia is learning each day, the rule of law, particularly as it applies to individual equality before the law and to property rights, is essential for a dynamic, entrepreneurial economy.
This new policy deeply undermines the Obama administration's stated commitment to civil rights, equality before the law, and a much-needed effort to rebuild U.S.-Muslim world relations since the disastrous presidency of George W. Bush.
What about rights to private property, to freedom of economic exchange, to the sanctity of contract, to equality before the law, to bear arms, to be left free of unreasonable searches, seizures or detentions?
Few nations have made the journey the U.S. has, moving from black slavery to a black president, from Jim Crow to equality before the law, and from widespread social acceptance of racism to near universal condemnation.
Highly populated places can prosper when people are free to start businesses, keep most of what they earn and are protected by the Rule of Law, especially pertaining to property rights and individual equality before the law.
Even those who had a warm heart for the poor, such as the Jesuit Juan de Mariana (1536-1624), argued that equality before the law required some inequality, as it was just that the most productive should earn more.
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The global economic crisis underscores other Israeli advantages, including a vibrant democracy, the rule of law -- particularly individual equality before the law -- and a still potent can-do tradition that stems from the way the country was founded and its survival against seemingly impossible odds.
The World Conference on Human Rights reaffirms the obligation of States to ensure that persons belonging to minorities may exercise fully and effectively all human rights and fundamental freedoms without any discrimination and in full equality before the law in accordance with the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities.
Recently, it has become fashionable to play down that progress by pointing out that many of the new democracies have not gone beyond elections to build the other, essential, protections for liberty: an independent judiciary, equality before a well-enforced rule of law, and constitutional limits on the abuse of political power.
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