What is the main idea of this passage from the Georgia Constitution? This document will recommend that all citizens participate in public service.
This document will serve society by protecting the rights of the people.
This document will ensure that all citizens lead happy, successful lives.
This document will require all citizens to serve the same God.

The founders of our country had great concern for fairness in government and law. In fact, the writers of the Declaration of Independence expressed this concern explicitly when they wrote about equality:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. . . .

Both the U.S. and Georgia constitutions put limits on government in an effort to ensure that each person is treated fairly under the laws. They provide that the government-or anyone using the powers of government-cannot take away "life, liberty, or property" without "due process of law." Moreover, everyone must be given equal protection under the law.

Keep in mind, however, that these provisions are restrictions on government action, and they apply directly only to people acting on behalf of government. These provisions can, however, be extended to private activity by the passage of other laws.