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But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again.

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John Rawls

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

Citizens, Doctrine, Doctrines, Grounding
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I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

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I have tried to set forth a theory that enables us to understand and to assess these feelings about the primacy of justice. Justice as fairness is the outcome: it articulates these opinions and supports their general tendency.

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An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty. . . . A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

Equal, Liberty, Principles, Right, Tolerance

We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.

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There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for secularism, and the latter will say I give a veiled argument for religion. I deny both. Each side presumes the basic ideas of constitutional democracy, so my suggestion is that we can make our political arguments in terms of public reason. Then we stand on common ground. That's how we can understand each other and cooperate.

Argument, Arguments, Ideas, Make, Religious, Two
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