An independent judiciary is part and parcel of our unique democracy, and the key to the promise of equal justice under law.
Whatever your views about income inequality among the parents, inherited privilege is inimical to the promise of equal opportunity, which is central to the social compact in Western democracies.
In the early to mid-20th century, Gilmore argues, it was primarily individuals and groups judged "un-American" by their contemporaries who took on the daunting task of bringing the South in line with the American "dream of perfection" — at least insofar as perfection could be measured by adherence to the promise of equal protection before the law.
WHILE Paris has its boulevards and Miami its beaches, San Francisco's lure is its labyrinth of back alleys, those mysterious midblock detours that seem to offer, in equal doses, the promise of discovery and the slightly scary possibility of getting lost — really lost.
They brought us this far, and with any luck they'll keep the pressure on to bring us a step closer to the promise of every person born equal.
If ever there was legislation that hasn't lived up to the promise of its name, then the Equal Pay Act 1970 is it.
The retreat from retiree health benefits has accelerated since 1993, when a new accounting rule forced companies to reduce their reported income by an amount equal to the present value of future promises for retiree health care.
They have been keen for some time to open up the supply side in schooling: their 2005 manifesto promised a "voucher" equal to the cost of a state education to any private school willing to charge parents no more than that.
The deal was announced after the market closed on Friday night, and the suggestion yesterday was that, despite suggestions from rival bidder Greencore that it could trump the Boparan bid, the attraction of cash rather than a merger of equals, and the promise of synergies down the line, might have won the day.
The America of my and most imaginations, worldwide, is one meant to redeem the promise of equal justice for all.
