A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved.

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.

It is of first importance that the military be subordinate to civilian government

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.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust.

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

The extreme nature of dominant-end views is often concealed by the vagueness and ambiguity of the end proposed.