The Claims Of Existing Social Arrangements And

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 Political Conception Just Applies To The Basic Structure Of A Society, Its Institutions, Constitutional Essentials, Matters Of Basic Justice And Property, And So On.

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.

What's Important Is That People Give The Kinds Of Reasons That Can Be Understood And Appraised Apart From Their Particular Comprehensive Doctrines: For Example, That They Argue Against Physician-assisted Suicide Not Just By Speculating About God's Wrath Or The Afterlife, But By Talking About What They See As Assisted Suicide's Potential Injustices.

In Constant Pursuit Of Money To Finance Campaigns, The Political System Is Simply Unable To Function. Its Deliberative Powers Are Paralyzed.