Meanwhile, the insistence on the achievement of formal equality is especially ignorant to the fact of "surplus".

In modern representative democracy, this formal equality is embodied primarily in the right to vote.

Law mirrors the abstract individuality and formal equality of contracting parties in the capitalist market.

There is now a greater degree of formal equality within the social security system.

The following formal equality is the closest substitute and turns out to be very useful for technical computations:

Yet despite this formal equality, local peoples' image of the Japanese people in their midst was still not very positive.

The Reconstruction amendments asserted the supremacy of the national state and the formal equality under the law of everyone within it.

He discusses the notion of the formal equality of market actors more in the Grundrisse.

Secondly, formal equality of treatment does not automatically guarantee that women will have equal rights in practice.

And, more evidently, formal equality before the law is limited.