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

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

Different political views, even if they're all liberal, in the sense of supporting liberal constitutional democracy, undoubtedly have some notion of the common good in the form of the means provided to assure that people can make use of their liberties, and the like.

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

If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by people, because it sided with the monarchs. It instituted the Inquisition and became part of the repressive state apparatus. That never happened here. We don't have that history.

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