Equal rights

  The American Political System over the years have seen demand of equal rights in every aspect of life especially by the minority. Rights are connected with the idea of citizenship and has a civil, political and social aspect as point out by Marshall in the recent reading in class. He explained the entitlement of certain things by citizens of a country and equality when it comes to sharing those things. Although his research was in England, it had a bearing on American which system had its roots from that country.
   He explained that at one point in history, all these rights were combined unlike in recent times where it has  been separated due to the practice of capitalistic economy. In American especially which did not ratify the laws set forth by the United Nation in relation to a person or citizen rights to civil, social and political rights.
  This can be seen in the quote by Marshall. "The explanation lies in the fact that the core of citizenship at this stage was composed of civil rights. And civil rights were indispensible to competitive market economy. They gave to each man, as part of his independent status, the power to engage as an independent unit in the economic struggle and made it possible to deny social protection on the ground that he was well equipped with the means to protect himself."
     This is basically saying that American see these rights as want instead of need and a person has to provide this for himself instead of it being the responsibility of the government. some of these rights like Education, healthcare and protection are not deem an important factor in the growth of the economy that the government has to concern itself with. So basically I choose this quote because I did not see by what means the citizens were equipped with since these rights when apply will be the instrument to equip better the citizen to protect himself. Or I also say that maybe only the citizen that the leaders thought are "THE CITIZEN" have been equipped leaving the minority whom they deem not as citizen therefore unworthy of those rights.