The Fundamental Criterion For Judging Any Procedure

Now The Good Of Political Life Is A Great Political Good. It Is Not A Secular Good Specified By A Comprehensive Doctrine Like Those Of Kant Or Mill. You Could Characterize This Political Good As The Good Of Free And Equal Citizens Recognizing The Duty Of Civility To One Another: The Duty To Give Citizens Public Reasons For One's Political Actions.

We May Suppose That Everyone Has In Himself The Whole Form Of A Moral Conception.

It Is Of First Importance That The Military Be Subordinate To Civilian Government

Thus I Assume That To Each According To His Threat Advantage Is Not A Conception Of Justice.

An Injustice Is Tolerable Only When It Is Necessary To Avoid An Even Greater Injustice.