Question

How did Georgia reflect the democratic idea that all are equal before the law?

Answer 1

Answer:

Georgia reacted with a certain hostility to the democratic idea that everyone is equal before the law, because it equated whites to blacks and white Georgians believed that blacks were inferior, so this law, according to them, made them inferior and was a form of punishment  for being defeated in the civil war.

Explanation:

After the civil war and during the southern reconstruction years, many laws were developed and implemented for different purposes.

The laws aimed at the integration of blacks, now released, into society were viewed by southerners with strong hostility. In Georgia it was no different and Georgians did not like the idea that everyone was equal under the law. This is because, according to them, these ideas devalued them by placing them on social levels equal to blacks, in addition to weakening them before blacks who could not be punished in various situations, such as stepping on the foot of a white man, for example.