Properly understood, then, the desire to act justly derives in part from the desire to express most fully what we are or can be, namely free and equal rational beings with the liberty to choose.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

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 extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.