The U.S. As A Litigious Society

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A major feature that distinguishes democratic societies from pre modern hierarchical societies is the principle of equality before the law. In its original formulation this principle did away with judicial systems that were based on legal inequalities, in which different codes of penalties applied to different castes

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"Why is the United States Such a Litigious Society?

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A major feature that distinguishes democratic societies from pre modern hierarchical societies is the principle of equality before the law. In its original formulation this principle did away with judicial systems that were based on legal inequalities, in which different codes of penalties applied to different castes. Aristocrats, clergy, and commoners appeared before different tribunals; an aristocrat convicted of a capital crime was beheaded with swift dignity, while a commoner was gruesomely hung, drawn and quartered in a public spectacle. A commoner convicted of theft could be branded, mutilated or publicly humiliated in the stocks, punishments never ..."

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