I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy. - John Rawls

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For film and television, it's interesting how fans feel that their particular ways of manifesting their affections are the correct ones. It's not just about being a fan, it's about how you perform your fandom. That's always been interesting to me.

John Rawls

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.

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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.

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The good of political life is the good of free and equal citizens recognizing the duty of civility to one another and supporting the institutions of a constitutional regime.

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