908 Equality
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908 Equality

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Equality isn't part of the American guarantee; we only guarantee "equality under the law," and no prohibition of opportunity based on a recognized class system, commonly called "equal opportunity," though it's far from being the same for everyone. The only place where equality is mentioned in the founding documents of the United States is in the Declaration of Independence, in the famous phrase “all men are created equal,” but the Declaration isn't part of legal canon, and created equal is obviously denouncing castes, where people used to have to be what their lineage forced them to be.
Anti-discrimination laws are intended to alleviated some of the artificial inequalities, but equality of outcome was never intended, and is nowhere supported in America's ideological foundation, though it did show up in France's revolution so people often confuse the two: equality of opportunity vs. equality of outcome. The innate inequality of women in general is excused because any individual woman ca

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