As a result, moral equality constitutes the 'egalitarian plateau' for all contemporary political theories (Kymlicka 1990, p.5).
Though commitment to the political ideals of freedom and equality constitutes a common ground for Enlightenment political philosophy, it is not clear not only how these values have a home in nature as Enlightenment science re-conceives it, but also how concretely to interpret each of these ideals and how properly to balance them against each other.
The political equality that constitutes a political community, Schmitt argues, cannot be based on the non-exclusive equality of all human beings as moral persons.
Yuval Diskin, director of Israel's General Security Service, has described Palestinian citizens' demands for equality as constituting "a strategic danger to the state" that must be thwarted "even if their activity is conducted through democratic means".
The conservative columnist Miranda Devine has criticised marriage equality advocates for developing a large coalition of corporations in favour of marriage equality, claiming it constitutes "totalitarian overreach".
I wonder if we, as a society of increasing diversity but also drastic inequality, even agree on what constitutes equality.
It just means that you have, generally speaking, even if you don't feel like it, higher cultural status, and that you and you girl friends are probably having very different experiences of what constitutes equality in America.
Criminalizing the commemoration of the Nakba is not only a blow to freedom of expression and right to equality, it also constitutes a denial of this horrific event in Palestinian history and suggests Israel's abdication of any responsibility for the Nakba.
The ascription of vulnerability overrides the principle of equality between the partners, constitutes and invasion of privacy and impacts on the positive rights of individuals.
It uses humour as a weapon, and in utilising the Women's Hour magazine programme structure presses home the point that one hour a day doesn't constitute equality.
The resulting dynamic nonlinear programs include equality constraints that constitute a low-order system of coupled ordinary differential equations and algebraic equations, which can then be solved with combination of standard temporal discretization and nonlinear programming techniques.
