Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated area of the county of Los Angeles that I lived in. Hacienda Heights has a total area of 11,182 sq miles and according to U.S. Census Bureau from their ‘Age and Sex’ table of ‘2011-2015 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates’, Hacienda Heights have a population of 55,158 that consist 26,946 male and 28,212 female. According trom the ‘Children and characteristic’ table from the same survey estimates, the median household income in Hacienda Heights is $78,864. According to www.hacienda-heights.net, the history of Hacienda Heights goes as far as 1912 when Edwin Hart and Jed Torrance bought the land from Anita Baldwin, the daughter of Elias Jackson “Lucky” Baldwin, “the wealthiest landowner in Southern …show more content…
County Board of Supervisors” (http://la.lawsoup.org). Being an unincorporated area of the county of Los Angeles, Hacienda Heights will have a unique standpoints on political equality, Income equality, and the equality of opportunity. To observe and judge the political equality aspect of Hacienda Heights, one could use the ‘five facets’ of ideal equality that Danielle Allen mentioned in her book Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality. The First two facets talked about the importance of “having equal access to the tool of government”(Allen 108) and the last three of the five facets talked about equal participation of people in the society. By looking at the status of Hacienda Heights as an unincorporated area of the county of Los Angeles, one could foresees that Hacienda Heights will have a political equality that leaned toward the unequal side compared to other cities in Los Angeles county. One of the example of the unequal political equality aspect is the hardship that the resident of Hacienda Heights have to face is the distance that they have to travel in order to express their concern about the community, to get a