They discuss the political achievements of Reconstruction, white and black Americans' often conflicting ideas about what would constitute equal rights, and the extent to which Obama's Presidency has helped alleviate American racism.
In both cases, presuming that citizens can make errors does not express the view that they lack, or are deficient in, the capacities that constitute equal moral status.
Still, here too people will differ about what constitutes an equal or an unequal claim or, more generally, an equal or an unequal person.
In this light, from the welfarist standpoint, the capability approach looks fetishistic, just as from the capability standpoint, the primary goods approach to the measure of people's condition for purposes of deciding what constitutes an equal (or more broadly, a fair) distribution looks to be fetishistic.
Fast-forward six decades, and the debate over what constitutes an equal education continues -- with one notable omission.
His percussive sounds didn't constitute an equal partnership with bass and drums.
Under the terms of the union, Lithuania officially remained a distinct state, constituting an equal partner with Poland in a Polish-Lithuanian confederation.
To put it simply, Prop 8 does not encourage responsible procreation, and even if it did, the manner in which it attempts to do so would still constitute an equal protection violation.
A total of 30 patients with good KOSS scores constituted two equal groups after partial meniscectomy or meniscus suture.
In a study of dinner-table conversation in low-income American families, Beals and Snow (1994) found that explanations constituted an equal amount of talk as did narratives; although the explanations were shorter, they were more frequent.
