Rutgers University
Nature of Politics: Final
Angel Chicaiza
Prompt: How do Mary Wollstonecraft and Martin Luther King embody a commitment to the rule of law, even though they want to challenge it? And what does that say about justice?
Wollstonecraft and Martin Luther King embodied commitment to the rule of law by abiding by it, Wollstonecraft and King Jr. challenged racist/sexist laws that they wanted removed and called for new laws, laws that would ensure equality. Wollstonecraft and Martin Luther King Jr. followed many of the laws that had been set to society but they would argue that society needed a better approach in which would grant everybody the same equal rights as the constitution in itself demands. Though they had laws in which would discriminate against women and/or African-Americans, both viewed a similar approach in which violence should not be involved, but rather educate
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has set an interesting turn of events where he led people by using his method of direct actions, though he did not advocate violence this did create complications when violence was used in methods for self-defense. Today, we see that people have different outlooks on how to achieve equality, and much of those are demonstrated through protests, boycotts, and even approaches using the legal system (through the courts). Throughout the readings of Wollstonecraft and King, the importance of justice is only relevant to them as the minority. The minorities are usually the oppressed, while the majority have dominion and set their understanding of what justice is. We notice what we lack of in our society in terms of justice when injustice is emphasized, inequality reveals the importance it plays in demonstrating what needs to be changed. In addition to Wollstonecraft and Kings reading, Young also examined oppression in which the cause usually led to disputes on whom is more grave or fundamental, relating to minorities on society in displaying injustice and focusing on