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‘Equality before the law' was absolute in the nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe.

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The above statement is false.
In nineteenth and early twentieth-century Europe, 'equality before the law' was not absolute and did not always imply universal suffrage. Revolutionary France's first political experiment in liberal democracy, the right to vote and be elected, was only granted to property-owning men. Political rights were denied to men without property and to all women. Only during the Jacobins' reign did all adult males have suffrage. The Napoleonic Code, on the other hand, restored the right to vote with restrictions and demoted women to the status of minors under the control of their husbands and fathers.
Hence, the correct statement would be that 'equality before the law' was not absolute in nineteenth and early twentieth century Europe.

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