In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

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

Now the good of political life is a great political good. It is not a secular good specified by a comprehensive doctrine like those of Kant or Mill. You could characterize this political good as the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another: the duty to give citizens public reasons for one's political actions.

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

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.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

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