id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_rh26v5oepzflhpgqhf35rxim34 Allan C. Ornstein Social Justice: History, Purpose and Meaning 2017 8 .pdf application/pdf 7300 399 63 For some 5000 years of recorded history, until the late eighteenth century, the ordinary person (nearly 99% of the populace) has lived on the edge of starvation, slightly above subsistence level, with no rights and no justice. natural rights of men (Voltaire's idea), a social contract between government and the people (Rousseau's dictum), the in the New World, whereby common people could successfully compete and fit well into the American landscape, largely because of the frontier experience, the abundance of free But America is the land of opportunity, where peoples' aspirations and dreams come true, where ordinary citizens have society.^ Differences in rewards are accepted so long as people with special abilities serve the common good and do not rights do people have or should have, and how society should In a just society, there must be a political and legal framework that protects and enhances the rights of the people. ./cache/work_rh26v5oepzflhpgqhf35rxim34.pdf ./txt/work_rh26v5oepzflhpgqhf35rxim34.txt