EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does equality before the law mean? 

• EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW (noun)
  The noun EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW has 1 sense:

1. the right to equal protection of the laws

  Familiarity information: EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The right to equal protection of the laws

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Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("equality before the law" is a kind of...):

human right ((law) any basic right or freedom to which all human beings are entitled and in whose exercise a government may not interfere (including rights to life and liberty as well as freedom of thought and expression and equality before the law))