“We need not repeat the burning irony of Anatole France: ‘The law in its majesty draws no distinction but forbids rich and poor alike from begging in the streets or from sleeping in the public parks.’ Equality is meaningless under unequal conditions.” Morris R. Cohen, Reason and Law 101 (1961).
political equality. The sharing of governmental decisions in such a way that, in the setting of governmental policies, the preference of each citizen is assigned an equal value.
