USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The term “equity” refers to fairness and justice and is distinguished from equality: Whereas equality means providing the same to all, equity means recognizing that we do not all start from the same place and must acknowledge and make adjustments to imbalances.

Detailed explanation-2: -Rawls called his concept of social justice “Justice as Fairness.” It consists of two principles. Since he first published A Theory of Justice, he changed the wording of these principles several times. He published his last version in 2001.

Detailed explanation-3: -The original position is, one might say, the appropriate initial status quo, and the fundamental agreements reached in it are fair. This explains the propriety of the name “justice as fairness": it conveys the idea that the principles of justice are agreed to in an initial situation that is fair.

Detailed explanation-4: -The “fairness” of social justice is equality allocated among groups. Justice is distributed not by evaluation of what the individual person deserves or has earned through his own efforts, but by rights of a group to equal communal sharing of what individuals of a society produce.