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

When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to these arrangements tend to develop a desire to act in accordance with these principles and to do their part in institutions which exemplify them

Man is a historical being : The realisations of the powers of human individuals living at any one time takes the cooperation of many generations (or even societies) over a long period of time. By contrast with humankind, every individual animal can and does do what for the most part it might do, or what any other of its kind might or can do that lives at the same time.

Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

Ideally a just constitution would be a just procedure arranged to insure a just outcome.

The idea of public reason has to do with how questions should be decided, but it doesn't tell you what are the good reasons or correct decisions.

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.