Political theorists affirm that all men have an equal right to political power--to that amount, at least, of political power which is conferred by a vote at elections.
If liberty would be an equal blessing to all men, then, we freely admit, all men would have an equal right to liberty.
This maxim does not mean, then, that all men have, by nature, an equal right to political power or to posts of honor.
If all men had, by nature, an equal right to any of the offices of government, how could such rights be adjusted?
Have not all men an equal rightto liberty and to a choice of the pursuits of happiness?
Is this modification of the Urabunna group marriage a later development from a previous system according to which all the men of a certain group had an equal right to all the {395} women of another group?
After she had shown clearly that she had an equal rightin the courts in an able and unanswerable argument, Judge Ryan considered her application for two months and rendered an adverse decision.
Albee, president of the State Normal School at Oshkosh, is a firm friend and outspoken advocate of equal right of the sexes to all the privileges of education, not excepting the education of the ballot-box.
But at the school meeting the ladies have an equal right to vote with the men.
For the all of one man is as dear to him as the all of another; and the poor man has an equal right, but more need to have representatives in the Legislature than the rich one.
Conceding woman's equal right to the ballot with man, they still resist her claims on the ground that this is not her hour, but man's hour.
Indeed, if all men have an equal rightto the possession of good land, no one can be forced to cultivate bad land without indemnification.
Consequently, I have added in my turn, all having an equal right of occupancy, to labor it is necessary to submit to equality.
Inequality of property is a necessary result of Nature,--which propositions are convertible into a simpler one: All men have an equal right of unequal property.
Every man takes the arm of the law for his protection as more effectual than his own; and therefore every man has an equal right in the formation of the government, and of the laws by which he is to be governed and judged.
It resides essentially in the whole people, and every citizen has an equal right to unite in its exercise.
The province was ceded as a unit, with an equal right pertaining to all its inhabitants, in every part thereof, to own slaves.
Cannot there be laws enacted by which a married woman can stand on the same platform as a married man--that is, have an equal right, at least, to the protection of her inalienable rights?
It is claimed that citizens of the slaveholding States have an equal right in the Territories with the citizens of the non-slaveholding States; and I admit they have.
Have the people not an equal right to the truth in important questions, equal right to light and happiness?
Under a government of law every one, assuming he possesses the necessary qualification, has an equal right to teach: this is elemental to freedom of teaching.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "equal right" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
