Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

In all sectors of society there should be roughly equal prospects of culture and achievement for everyone similarly motivated and endowed. The expectations of those with the same abilities and aspirations should not be affected by their social class.

The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

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

We may suppose that everyone has in himself the whole form of a moral conception.

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.