What question about law and justice was raised by the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa?
The governing concept is the difference between legal authority and moral or democratic justice. Under apartheid, the South African state created and enforced laws that separated people by race and denied the majority equal rights. Their formal existence as state-made laws did not make them fair or legitimate. The anti-apartheid struggle therefore raised the fundamental question of whether a law is just merely because the state has enacted it. Option A expresses that challenge accurately. The other choices are either sweeping claims or unrelated ideas: laws do not automatically guarantee equality, justice can be deeply connected with politics, and a constitution is not merely a tax document. Democratic constitutionalism requires law to respect equality, dignity, and rights.
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