Part 1 of Essay
In speaking of equality and its true meaning, Patricia Williams takes the term equality and puts it into three levels of understanding and interpretation. The first level involves the literal and direct meaning of equality. If we take equality for its literal translation, then it justifiably means that everything and eve ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... we can challenge what is not equality by the limits we have set. And thus, we can challenge the legitimacy and authority of the Constitution to say what is or isn't equality. As nice as it would be for words to mean what they literally translate, Patricia Williams realizes that it is not this way. She admits that all three levels of understanding work together to form our understanding of words. And it is this room for interpretation, that Williams argues is the source of our greatest issues today. "White" do ....