A Political Conception Just Applies

The Claims Of Existing Social Arrangements And Of Self Interest Have Been Duly Allowed For. We Cannot At The End Count Them A Second Time Because We Do Not Like The Result.

The Concept Of Justice I Take To Be Defined, Then, By The Role Of Its Principles In Assigning Rights And Duties And In Defining The Appropriate Division Of Social Advantages. A Conception Of Justice Is An Interpretation Of This Role.

When The Basic Structure Of Society Is Publicly Known To Satisfy Its Principles For An Extended Period Of Time, Those Subject To These Arrangements Tend To Develop A Desire To Act In Accordance With These Principles And To Do Their Part In Institutions Which Exemplify Them

At Best The Principles That Economists Have Supposed The Choices Of Rational Individuals To Satisfy Can Be Presented As Guidelines For Us To Consider When We Make Our Decisions.

I'm Concerned About The Survival, Historically, Of Constitutional Democracy.