Waldron, in his most recent work on Locke, explores the opposite claim: that Locke's theology actually provides a more solid basis for his premise of political equality than do contemporary secular approaches that tend to simply assert equality.
However, his positive theory is contractualist rather than contractarian, as it begins with the premise of moral equality.
Founded by Jim Jones in the 1950s, the Peoples Temple was originally a Christian sect based on the premise of racial equality.
The Peoples Temple was originally founded on the premise of racial equality, and three quarters of its victims were African American.
The Constitution is premised on equality.
How can "firm, serious" Republic fire debate if most people are fine, even happy, with the status quo? "It's about asking questions, getting people thinking, working from a premise of fairness and equality," says Paula Feehan.
A related, earlier argument premised on the core value of equality of opportunity is that social resources such as healthcare are to be allocated so as to ensure that everyone has a 'decent minimum' and can attain the normal opportunity range for his or her society [ 57].
It seems illogical to premise marriage equality on the vitality of gay families and yet erect obstacles to same-sex couples' attempts to parent.
However, the prohibitive arguments advanced in this article do not require empirical premises as strong as this…they rely instead on the notion of equality" (1990, 313).
