WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR SOME: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful

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3. The premise of law as the great equalizer from the outset is wrong

the author is creating an ideal past to compare current injustice to. The fact is the law was never an equalizer and has always reflected the interests of elites who make laws. The fact that most Americans existed outside legal protection and were in fact legally subordinated, with some constituting property, demonstrates as much.

This collection of essays is about how law fortified class dominance in England, but the conceptual ideas apply to law more generally.
http://www.amazon.com/Albions-Fatal-Tree-Society-Eighteenth-Century/dp/0394730852