The Idea Of Public Reason Isn't About

A Political Conception Covers The Right To Vote, The Political Virtues, And The Good Of Political Life, But It Doesn't Intend To Cover Anything Else.

Ideally Citizens Are To Think Of Themselves As If They Were Legislators And Ask Themselves What Statutes, Supported By What Reasons Satisfying The Criterion Of Reciprocity, They Would Think Is Most Reasonable To Enact.

There Is A Divergence Between Private And Social Accounting That The Market Fails To Register. One Essential Task Of Law And Government Is To Institute The Necessary Conditions.

A Just System Must Generate Its Own Support.

Now The Good Of Political Life Is A Great Political Good. It Is Not A Secular Good Specified By A Comprehensive Doctrine Like Those Of Kant Or Mill. You Could Characterize This Political Good As The Good Of Free And Equal Citizens Recognizing The Duty Of Civility To One Another: The Duty To Give Citizens Public Reasons For One's Political Actions.