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civil rightsRights of the individual citizen. In many countries they are specified (as in the Bill of Rights of the US constitution) and guaranteed by law to ensure equal treatment for all citizens. In the USA, the struggle to obtain civil rights for former slaves and their descendants, both through legislation and in practice, has been a major theme since the Civil War. See civil-rights movement, women's movement, and gay rights movement. |
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| While homosexuality was decriminalized in 2000 and an antidiscrimination law including sexual orientation was put in place four years ago, there is strong popular feeling against homosexuality, despite some progress. Massachusetts is considering a bill to add a prohibition against weight discrimination to its antidiscrimination law. The question implicated by the formal inequality objection, then, is whether there is such a principle--a principle that is consistent with antidiscrimination law as a whole, that would allow us to say that Darlene Jespersen was in some sense relevantly different from her male counterparts. |
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