I understand your position. It argues a different point than the one I am making. All men are, in theory, able to have recourse to the law and be subject to it and be protected by it. Agreed. My point is that in practice this is not always the case. Its the theory vs. the practice.
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In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.