civil equality
Same rights, everyone
Civil equality is the principle that all people should have the same legal rights and protections regardless of race, sex, religion, or other characteristics.
The term appears in discussions of voting rights, equal protection under law, and anti-discrimination policy: The movement fought for civil equality in housing and employment.
Distinguished from social equality, which concerns treatment in everyday life rather than formal legal status.
- nondiscriminationEqual treatment regardless of identity
- justiceFair treatment under law
- racial justiceFairness regardless of ethnicity
- suffrageRight to cast ballots
- inclusionBeing made part
multiculturalism · level playing field · fair wages · accessibility · legal protection · democracy · tolerance · voting rights · fairness · equity · due process · desegregation · labor rights · human rights · public welfare · same-sex marriage · constitutional rights · representation
- gender equalitygender equity, gender parity, women's rights, pay equity, gender discrimination
civil equalityhierarchy
Ranked authority structure
caste system · social inequality · social hierarchy · apartheid · Jim Crow
civil equalityoligarchy
Rule by few
plutocracy · autocracy · tyranny · despotism · authoritarianism
civil equalitylegal discrimination
Unequal treatment permitted by law
discrimination · legal privilege · systemic discrimination · favoritism · preferential treatment
civil, equality, civility, civilian, civilize, civilized, civilization, civics, civic