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"Ideal legislators do not vote their interests."
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"We must not be enticed by mathematically attractive assumptions into pretending that the contingencies of mens social positions and the asymmetries of their situations somehow even out in the end. Rather we must choose our conception of justice fully recognizing that this is not and cannot be the case."
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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