t the relevance or role of reason in politics.
             What can be the basis for a society of peoples given the reasonable and expected differences of peoples from one another with their distinctive institutions and languages, religions and cultures, as well as their different histories. The law of peoples with its political concepts and principles, ideals, and criteria is what makes up the content of public reason in politics. The role of public reason among free and equal peoples is similar to its role in a constitutional democratic regime among free and equal citizens. The idea of reason specifies at the deepest level the basic moral political values that are to determine constitutional democratic government's relation
             to its citizens and their relation to one another. Those who reject the constitutional democracy with its criterion idea of reciprocity will of course reject the idea of public reason. Moreover, reason is public in three ways: as the reason of free and equal citizens, the reason of the pub
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