Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

Peace surely is a good reason, yes. But there are other reasons too.

The bad man desires arbitrary power. What moves the evil man is the love of injustice.

First of all, principles should be general. That is, it must be possible to formulate them without use of what would be intuitively recognized as proper names, or rigged definite descriptions.

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.