Isonomia (ἰσονομία "equality of political rights," from the Greek ἴσος isos, "equal," and νόμος nomos, "usage, custom, law,") was a word used by Ancient Greek writers such as Herodotus and Thucydides to refer to some kind of popular government. It was subsequently eclipsed until brought back into English as isonomy ("equality of law").

Mogens Herman Hansen has argued that, although often translated as "equality of law," isonomia was in fact something else. Along with isonomia, the Athenians used several terms for equality all compounds beginning with iso-: isegoria (equal right to address the political assemblies), isopsephos polis (one man one vote) and isokratia (equality of power).

When Herodotus invents a debate among the Persians over what sort of government they should have, he has Otanes speak in favor of isonomia rather than democracy, although the description he provides is close to the Athenian practice of democracy:

The rule of the people has the fairest name of all, equality (isonomia), and does none of the things that a monarch does. The lot determines offices, power is held accountable, and deliberation is conducted in public.

Luiz Fux is a Brazilian judge. He was appointed justice minister of the Supreme Federal Court by President Dilma Rousseff and had his nomination approved by the Senate. He is of Romanian Jewish extraction, and the first Jewish Brazilian (actually, the first Jewish Brazilian at STF is minister Lewandowski) member of the Court.

He was a minister of the Superior Court of Justice before assuming his position at the Supreme Federal Court.

D. Felipe da Silva (died 1644) was a Portuguese soldier in the service of Spain.

Felipe was the son of D. Filipa da Silva (1550–1590), 4th Countess of Portalegre and of D. Juan de Silva (1528-1601), Spanish ambassador to the court of King Sebastian and Count of Salinas^{[disambiguation needed ]}. His brother was D. Manrique da Silva, 1st Marquis of Gouveia, mordomo-mor of King John IV of Portugal and member of his privy council.

In 1638 Felipe da Silva was part of the War Council of Flanders, along with the Marquis of Mirabel and the Marquis of Cerralvo^{[disambiguation needed ]}, Manuel Pimentel de Requesens Count of Feira, Claude de Rye, Baron of Valançon and the Baron of Grobbendonc.

After the Portuguese rebellion of December 1, 1640, he was held in custody at Burgos, being freed in 1643 after which we was ordered to proceed to Madrid where he was promoted to Commander of the Spanish forces in Catalonia, despite his age and the fact that he suffered from the gout.

He led the conquest of Monzon (Montsó) in 1643 and of Lérida (Lleida) in 1644. He died that same year.