Changing Concepts of Equality: From Equality Before the Law to the Welfare State

Authors

Ralph K. Winter Jr., Yale Law School

Publication Title

Washington University Law Quarterly

Abstract

Equality, or at least the rhetoric of equality, has been almost from the start a central issue in our society. The debate, however, has been a fluid one, because the society has shifted from the pursuit of one concept of equality to the pursuit of another. The former concept of equality I shall call equality before the law. The latter I shall call equality of social-political-economic status.

Recommended Citation

Ralph K. Winter Jr., Changing Concepts of Equality: From Equality Before the Law to the Welfare State, 1979 Wash. U. L. Q. 741 (1979).
Available at: https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/law_lawreview/vol1979/iss3/7