All Men Are Created Equal
August, 2007
t's a basic part of what makes usAmericans: the belief, enshrined inthe Declaration of Independence,that no one person is better than anyother. We have no aristocracy and nocaste system and even adhere to thefiction of a classless society. But inpractice, things are different. Even among government and public institutions—which surely should uphold the legal and moral codes of our hallowed founding documents even when others do not—this egalitarian ideal is subverted left and right.Stratified...
