As a political slogan, "everyone is equal before the law" came into being during the bourgeois revolution. As a formal legal provision, it first appeared in the French Declaration of Human Rights of 1789 and the French Constitution containing the Declaration of Human Rights. Its content "should at least include the following four meanings: first, equal protection, and the legitimate rights and interests of any social member are equally protected by law; Second, equal compliance, all members of society equally enjoy legal rights and perform legal obligations; Third, equal application, the law applies equally to all citizens, and shall not vary from person to person; Fourth, equal sanctions, all citizens' illegal and criminal acts are investigated or punished equally, and no one can enjoy the privilege of breaking the law without due sanctions. "

According to foreign legal history, it should have existed in ancient Rome.