The idea of public reason isn't about the right answers to all these questions, but about the kinds of reasons that they ought to be answered by.

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

The principles of justice are chosen behind a veil of ignorance.

Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to uphold them.