equality before the law

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   the right to equal protection of the laws

   Broaderhuman right

Questions about equality before the law

What does equality before the law mean?

equality before the law means "the right to equal protection of the laws".

Is equality before the law a common word?

equality before the law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.