[e]ach Person Is To Have An Equal

The Idea Of Public Reason Isn't About The Right Answers To All These Questions, But About The Kinds Of Reasons That They Ought To Be Answered By.

I Have Tried To Set Forth A Theory That Enables Us To Understand And To Assess These Feelings About The Primacy Of Justice. Justice As Fairness Is The Outcome: It Articulates These Opinions And Supports Their General Tendency.

People Can Make Arguments From The Bible If They Want To. But I Want Them To See That They Should Also Give Arguments That All Reasonable Citizens Might Agree To.

Political Philosophy Is Realistically Utopian When It Extends What Are Ordinarily Thought To Be The Limits Of Practicable Political Possibility And, In So Doing, Reconciles Us To Our Political And Social Condition. Our Hope For The Future Of Our Society Rests On The Belief That The Social World Allows A Reasonably Just Society Of Peoples.

A Just System Must Generate Its Own Support.