It wouldn't be fair to say that conservatives cherish property the way liberals cherish equality. But it would be fair to say that the takings clause is the conservatives' recipe for judicial activism just as they say liberals have misused the equal protection clause.

We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity.

Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.

As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.