The Idea Of Public Reason Has To

The Intolerant Can Be Viewed As Free-riders, As Persons Who Seek The Advantages Of Just Institutions While Not Doing Their Share To Uphold Them.

A Society Regulated By A Public Sense Of Justice Is Inherently Stable.

A Just Society Is A Society That If You Knew Everything About It, You'd Be Willing To Enter It In A Random Place.

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.

The Bad Man Desires Arbitrary Power. What Moves The Evil Man Is The Love Of Injustice.