Law ranked colonized peoples on a civilization ladder granting rights to minorities

Evidence

As the litmus of a civilizational test, the law separated the minority of civilized from the majority of those yet-to-be-civilized, incorporating the minority into a regime of rights while excluding the majority from the same regime. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 41

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills the civilizational-ladder legal mechanism in one sentence — directly relevant as a comparative marker for how Jew/Arab were differentially juridically positioned.
• XREF: connects to: State commissions manufactured ethnic categories and attached graded citizenship rights to them — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 560