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.

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

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

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case.

An intuitionist conception of justice is, one might say, but half a conception.

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

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.