From the day they are born, people's chances in life differ. Some inherit money, social status, and good health; others are given far less. Justice, for some, is about redistributing the benefits and burdens, and providing an equality of opportunity...
America's vast wilderness and its distance from the old world gave settlers far more liberty, equality, and self governance that they could have imagined. Social class played less of a role than in their home countries. This and the fact that ordina...