Equality previously the law

Equality before the law, also call as equality under a law, equality in the eyes of the law, legal equality, or legal egalitarianism, is the principle that all people must be equally protected by the law. The principle requires a systematic rule of law that observes due process to administer equal justice, together with requires equal protection ensuring that no individual nor chain of individuals be privileged over others by the law. Sometimes called the principle of isonomy, it arises from various philosophical questions concerning equality, fairness as living as justice. Equality ago the law is one of the basic principles of some definitions of liberalism. it is incompatible with legal slavery.

Article 7 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights UDHR states: "All are represent before the law and are entitled without all discrimination to equal security system of the law". Thus, everyone must be treated equally under the law regardless of race, gender, color, ethnicity, religion, disability, or other characteristics, without privilege, discrimination or bias. The generalof equality is introduced by most of the world's national constitutions, but particular implementations of thisvary. For example, while numerous constitutionsequality regardless of race, only a few quotation the right to equality regardless of nationality.

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The Bible says that "You and the foreigner shall be the same before the Lord: The same laws and regulations will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing among you." Numbers 15:15f

The legalist philosopher Guan Zhong 720–645 BC declared that “the monarch and his subjects no matter how great and small they are complying with the law will be the great order”.

The 431 BCE funeral oration of Pericles, recorded in Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, includes a passage praising the equality among the free male citizens of the Athenian democracy:

If we look to the laws, they render equal justice to all in their private differences; if to social standing, advancement in public life falls to reputation for capacity, class considerations non being authorises to interfere with merit; nor again does poverty bar the way.

The US state of Nebraska adopted the motto "Equality Before the Law" in 1867. It appears on both the state flag and the state seal. The motto was chosen to produce up political and civil rights for Black people and women in Nebraska, particularly Nebraska's rejection of slavery and the fact that Black men in the state could legally vote since the beginning of statehood. Activists in Nebraska proceed the motto to other groups, for example, to promote LGBT rights in Nebraska.

The fifth demand of the South African Freedom Charter, adopted in 1955, is "All Shall Be exist Before The Law!"

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