Social Equality In America

In the beginning when America was established, our Founding Fathers created a document called the Declaration of Independence, which stated, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Till today, people question what the founder fathers meant by that “all men are created equal,” in the fact on how are the citizens of America equal in the legal system? The definition of political equality means that everyone has the same status under the law; in other words everyone must obey the laws and in return they get to enjoy the same rights. It is difficult for America to achieve political equality because of how the Electoral College System works; there are still issues with social equality today as more issues with
America, from the 13 colonies till today has cautiously to fail at being able to successfully achieve political equality. The statement that “all men are created equal” is that a person has equal value and worth at birth. Social equality relates to political equality because social equality is having equal opportunity, and the freedom from oppression and discrimination. From the Women’s Rights Movement throughout the 1900’s to African American being able to vote, these are some of the few examples of issues that America has had to deal with. In lecture, Professor Haas talked about disenfranchised, which women where denied the right to vote for many years. And an example of discrimination is the case of “Brown vs Board of Education” where whites and blacks would be separate but equal throughout schools (lecture, September 15). African Americans were deprived of their rights. Today there are still social issues; for example, transgender children are being denied their rights to be able to change in the same fitting rooms with the same
But the problem is that not everyone has the same economically equality opportunity because of where they grew up. Even though everyone has the right to vote, not everyone has equal access to wealth knowledge, status and political power. Economic equality portrays to political equality in the sense that in order to obtain economic equality a person has to first have political equality. But America fails at this because there is a huge wage gap. Economic equality is a fantasy, used to justify giving benefits to favored group. But if the government were to force the idea of “fair” then the result would be less jobs for the American citizens. For example, in Russia, when they enforced “fairness,” they were driven off their land (Terms to Know). America is a democracy with limited government, and if the government got involved then what would the point of living in a