If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

There are infinitely many variations of the initial situation and therefore no doubt indefinitely many theorems of moral geometry.

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.

Citizens can have their own grounding in their comprehensive doctrines, whatever they happen to be.

Clearly when the liberties are left unrestricted they collide with one another.

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.

The question is, we have a particular problem. How many religions are there in the United States? How are they going to get on together? One way, which has been the usual way historically, is to fight it out, as in France in the sixteenth century. That's a possibility.