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

The naturally advantaged are not to gain merely because they are more gifted, but only to cover the costs of training and education and for using their endowments in ways that help the less fortunate as well.

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

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

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

There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.