The Idea Of Public Reason Isn't About

How Did Madison Get Separation Through Virginia And Later Congress? The Baptists, The Presbyterians, And The Smaller Sects Hated Jefferson; To Them He Was A Secularist Of The Worst Kind. But Madison Could Get Jefferson's Bill Passed Because The Baptists, The Presbyterians, And Smaller Sects Who Were Excluded In New England And In The South Got Together For Their Own Protection.

The Strength Of The Claims Of Formal Justice, Of Obedience To System, Clearly Depend Upon The Substantive Justice Of Institutions And The Possibilities Of Their Reform.

A Just System Must Generate Its Own Support.

The Idea Of Public Reason Has To Do With How Questions Should Be Decided, But It Doesn't Tell You What Are The Good Reasons Or Correct Decisions.

There Are Two Kinds Of Comprehensive Doctrines, Religious And Secular. Those Of Religious Faith Will Say I Give A Veiled Argument For Secularism, And The Latter Will Say I Give A Veiled Argument For Religion. I Deny Both. Each Side Presumes The Basic Ideas Of Constitutional Democracy, So My Suggestion Is That We Can Make Our Political Arguments In Terms Of Public Reason. Then We Stand On Common Ground. That's How We Can Understand Each Other And Cooperate.