"The natural distribution is neither just nor unjust; nor is it unjust that persons are born into society at some particular position."

"The idea of public reason specifies the political values that are to guide the exercise of political power."

"A just society is a society that everyone would agree to live in, if they did not know what their own position in that society would be."

"The social contract is a hypothetical agreement among free and equal persons."

"The concept of justice as fairness is a form of social contract theory."