The Constitution does NOT guarantee us "equality." It protects life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Do you think equality is something we should have a right to constitutionally? Please elaborate on your opinion.
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I think that equality is directly correlated to the pursuit of and lack of obtaining, happiness.
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your right, the constitution doesn't offer equality, but it does offer equality under the law, but only on the subject of race, not on gender or sexual orientation. Now we can't force people to treat everyone equally, cause if a kkk member comes into my store, im not going to give them the utmost service i can offer, but we do need to give EVERYONE equality under the law, so everyone has all the same rights as anyone else.
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You as an individual should be rewarded according to your own personal efforts. If there's someone else that has chosen not to do the same, there should be a difference there. If you choose to help this person out this is your choice but not your obligation. If you want "this", what are you willing to sacrifice in order to get "it"? (Time, school loans, hard work) These ideals not so popular nowadays, still the truth though.
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the constitution doesn't need to guarantee us equality because all men are created equal already...there is a difference between human equality and a person's worth based on his own work, possessions and monetary gain. But in a sense it does grant us basic freedoms ALL men should have and so in a sense it does provide a certain degree of equality in that it ensures life liberty and the pursuit of happiness for ALL men no matter their color, creed or bank account size....of course the ones with the power and big bank accounts do all they can to swindle that away from the rest of us any chance they get.
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How can one have liberty without equality?
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Declaration of Independence: "We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal". The pursuit of happiness should cover equality in the Constitution.
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What do you mean by equality? That is a hugely broad term. The constitution, like all law, is malleable. We have amendments to the constitution so that as society evolves, so does the law to guaranty what our society deems to be "basic" human rights. The 15th (voting not restricted by race) and the 19th (voting not restricted by gender) are two great examples of this.
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Ok first of all, the protection of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness is not part of the Constitution. It's in the Declaration of Independence, which also happens to state that it is a self-evident truth that all men are created equal. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." The Constitution is a living document. It says whatever we want it to say, in theory. If we someday decide as a nation that there should be a law that all citizens must wear melon rinds on their heads, we can amend the Constitution to make it so, just as we ratified and later repealed the Prohibition, or women's suffrage. I do think it's a shame that the ERA has never been ratified. I think it should be, and it should also be expanded to deal not only with gender equality, but equality between all races, nationalities, and sexual orientations.
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