egalitarian
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Americans today are far more likely to share the Courier’s skepticism, not because we reject the egalitarian ideals of the of the Revolution but because we take them for granted.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
During his reign, the Norwegian monarchy became more egalitarian and transparent with finances and health, Ole-Jørgen Schulsrud-Hansen, historian and TV2 royal correspondent, told the BBC.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
The problem — and the beauty — of Social Security is that it was conceived as an egalitarian system.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026
That means that the public must have egalitarian, accessible, and effective channels to influence the law and policy that interpret, reflect, and shape constitutional meaning.
From Slate ● Jul. 20, 2026
Hunter-gatherer societies tend to be relatively egalitarian, to lack full-time bureaucrats and hereditary chiefs, and to have small-scale political organization at the level of the band or tribe.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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But Masur’s monumental account leaves no doubt that a generation of 19th-century racial egalitarians altered history.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 22, 2021
By categorizing people as lucky or unlucky, she argued, these egalitarians set up a moralizing hierarchy.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 31, 2018
In this sense, we are all egalitarians, Republicans and Democrats alike.
From Salon ● Nov. 25, 2015
People with different values … individualists compared to egalitarians, for example … draw different inferences from the same evidence.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 21, 2012
There were even a few egalitarians who claimed for all classes a democratic régime.
From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith
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