Justice as fairness provides what we want.

A political conception just applies to the basic structure of a society, its institutions, constitutional essentials, matters of basic justice and property, and so on.

The idea of public reason has to do with how questions should be decided, but it doesn't tell you what are the good reasons or correct decisions.

[E]ach person is to have an equal right to the most extensive basic liberty compatible with a similar liberty for others.

People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.

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

The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.