In speaking of equality and its true meaning, Patricia Williams takes the term equality and puts it into three levels of understanding and interpretation. The first level involves the literal and direct meaning of equality. If we take equality for its literal translation, then it justifiably means that everything and everyone shares this sense of balance and equality. Given this literal meaning, the term equality has no room for interpretation. Therefore, the Constitution, the "machinery" of equality, produces nothing but and promises nothing but equality. On the second level, the term equality leaves room for interpretation - that each person can take away from the Constitution