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"Ideal legislators do not vote their interests."
John RawlsA scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, — John Rawls
"A scheme is unjust when the higher expectations, one or more of them, are excessive. If these expectations were decreased, the situation of the less favored would be improved."
John Rawls
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John Bordley Rawls was an American moral, legal and political philosopher in the modern liberal tradition. Rawls has been described as one of the most influential political philosophers of the 20th century.
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