Name:______________________________________
Date:_______________________
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Rediscovering the Ideas of Liberty
#23 Equality Before the Law
1. According to our Founding Fathers, what are derived from a
Creator?
Name:______________________________________
Date:_______________________
Period:___________
Rediscovering the Ideas of Liberty
#23 Equality Before the Law
1. According to our Founding Fathers, what are derived from a
Creator?
2. What was carefully designed to protect individuals from
government?
2. What was carefully designed to protect individuals from
government?
3. What form of equality does not destroy liberty?
3. What form of equality does not destroy liberty?
4. Who deserves to be treated equally before the law?
4. Who deserves to be treated equally before the law?
5. Who will, when they are left free will, by nature, perform in
unequal fashion with unequal results?
5. Who will, when they are left free will, by nature, perform in
unequal fashion with unequal results?
6. Who said, “But to teach that all men are born with equal
powers and faculties, to equal influence in society, to equal
property and advantages through life, is as gross a fraud, as
glaring an imposition on the credulity of the people, as ever
was practiced….”?
6. Who said, “But to teach that all men are born with equal
powers and faculties, to equal influence in society, to equal
property and advantages through life, is as gross a fraud, as
glaring an imposition on the credulity of the people, as ever
was practiced….”?
7. What will always be the result of real liberty?
7. What will always be the result of real liberty?
8. What is endangered when government compulsion is used to
take the property of one class of citizens for the purpose of
causing another class of citizens to become equal in their
possession of “things”?
8. What is endangered when government compulsion is used to
take the property of one class of citizens for the purpose of
causing another class of citizens to become equal in their
possession of “things”?
9. Whose liberty is threated when a government possesses power
to deprive one group of its liberty in property?
9. Whose liberty is threated when a government possesses power
to deprive one group of its liberty in property?
10. Who insisted on limited government power and provided,
through the Constitution, a means for “equal and exact justice
to all men, of whatever state or persuasion….”?
10. Who insisted on limited government power and provided,
through the Constitution, a means for “equal and exact justice
to all men, of whatever state or persuasion….”?
“We, The People…in Order to Establish Justice…and
Secure The Blessings of Liberty… Do Ordain and Establish
this Constitution….” Preamble—U.S. Constitution
“We, The People…in Order to Establish Justice…and
Secure The Blessings of Liberty… Do Ordain and Establish
this Constitution….” Preamble—U.S. Constitution