Can a Democracy possiblity exist without both equality of oppurtunity and equality before the law ?

Question

details and adjectives are niiice

Answer 1

Yes, in fact that's the way that America started out. A (representative) democracy, also known as a "Republic", is a system of government where the populous elects individuals to make decisions for the country as a whole.

In the begining, the only people that were allowed to vote were land owning white males. This is not "equality before the law", because white land-owning men had more rights and were "more equal" than non white land-owning men.

Additionally, early America did not have equality of opportunity. There was no mechanism back then to attempt to create an equal playing field for everyone. In today's America we have said that this equal playing field is an important part of our society. Therefore we have created public school systems, social welfare programs, social security and a progressive tax system that assures that the wealthy don't get too wealthy by stating that the more you make the higher the percentage in taxes you pay.

So, yes, democracy can exsist, but is it a democracy that I would want to live in? No.

Answer 2

Of course it can "exist." Our government has always "existed" without complete "equality," and it will continue to do so. We have always had hypocrisy about the concept of equality. Many of the men who signed the Declaration of Independance owned slaves. The men who drafted, proposed, and ratified the 14th amendment would not even let women vote on it. And the Supreme Court did not grant equal rights to women in the name of the 14th until about 100 years after it was ratified. There are so many different kinds of "equality," .... there are so many different kinds of "discrimination," .... that we can't begin to count them all and we'll never be able to guarantee them all. Remember, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. Likewise, under our constitution, equality is "guaranteed" to all, but some kinds of inequality are more "guaranteed" than others.

Answer 3

You are talking about ideal democeacy. We dont have that here or anywhere. So all the above things will exist in any democracy.

Communists threaten the voters and do whatever they want after the election.

In democracy politicians brain wash the voters and do whatever they want after the election.

So no difference

Answer 4

"Social justice" is a perplexing term to define. The KKK, to illustrate, defines it in yet differently than the NAACP. What one individual calls social justice yet another calls communism. common human rights are much less stressful to define than 'social justice' and that they are no longer one and the comparable. the respond to your question in regards to the rather worth of equality with out Social Justice would nicely be got here across via on reflection in history and on condition that there became extremely some over-lapping in strikes like women individuals's rights, workers rights, voter's rights, newborn's rights, Civil Rights, etc. lots of the 1st wave feminisms dedicated their energies to extra beneficial than one reason. Society became and nevertheless is purely too intermingled to cut up equality from social justice. it rather is getting human beings to agree on the thank you to discover 'equality' and 'social justice' it rather is the perplexing section at this element on the time line of humanity.

Answer 5

My answer to you: read Starship Troopers, by Robert A. Heinlein

This box is too small for me to write an essay.

Answer 6

It wouldn't be a true democracy then, would it !?