How did Madison get separation through Virginia and later Congress? The Baptists, the Presbyterians, and the smaller sects hated Jefferson; to them he was a secularist of the worst kind. But Madison could get Jefferson's bill passed because the Baptists, the Presbyterians, and smaller sects who were excluded in New England and in the South got together for their own protection.

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

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

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

The hazards of the generalized prisoner's dilemma are removed by the match between the right and the good.

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

No one deserves his greater natural capacity nor merits a more favorable starting place in society.