In Political Liberalism (1996)...

In Political Liberalism (1996), he shows that, in democracy, the citizen has the duty to appeal to “public reason”. “The ideal of citizenship imposes a moral, not a legal, duty - the duty of civility - to be able to explain to one another on those fundamental questions how the principles and policies they advocate and vote for can be supported by the political values of public reason.

The duty also involves a willingness to listen to others and a fairmindedness in deciding when accommodations to their view should reasonably be made”[^20] The citizen has the duty of reporting to what, together, the citizens of that state decide for the common good. It involves a content of rules and neutral decisions in relation to the various individual convictions, including religious ones.

Each citizen can publicly promote his or her points of view and arguments which may be shared by the other citizens as well,…